Is There Such Think As Luck?

The 4 Kinds of Luck

The first kind of luck is blind luck where one just gets lucky because something completely out of their control happened. This includes fortune, fate, etc.

Then, there's luck through persistence, hard work, hustle, and motion. This is when you're running around creating opportunities. You're generating a lot of energy, you're doing a lot to stir things up. It's almost like mixing a petri dish or mixing a bunch of reagents and seeing what combines. You're just generating enough force, hustle, and energy for luck to find you. 

A third way is you become very good at spotting luck. If you are very skilled in a field, you will notice when a lucky break happens in your field, and other people who aren't attuned to it won't notice. So, you become sensitive to luck. 

The last kind of luck is the weirdest, hardest kind, where you build a unique brand, a unique mindset, which causes luck to find you. You put yourself in a position to capitalize on luck or to attract luck when nobody else created the opportunity for themselves. This happens when you can build your character in a certain way, where you character becomes your destiny. 

One of the things I think is important to make money is having a reputation that makes people do deals through you. If you are a trusted, reliable, high-integrity, long-term thinking dealmaker, when other people want to do deals but don't know how to do them in a trust worthy manner with strangers, they will literally approach you and give you a cut of the deal just because of the integrity and reputation you've built up. 

Your character and your reputation are things you can build, which will let you take advantage of opportunities other people may characterize as lucky, but you know it wasn't luck.  The closer you want to get to me, the better your values have to be. 

Apply Specific Knowledge 

Everyone wants to get rich immediately, but the world is an efficient place; immediate doesn't work. You do have to put in the time. You do have to put in the hours, and so I think you have to put yourself in the position with the specific knowledge, with accountability, with leverage, with the authentic skill set you have, to be the best in the world at what you do. 

You have to enjoy it and keep doing it, keep doing it, and keep doing it. Don't keep track, and don't keep count because if you do, you will run out of time. 

"You're too young." - Most of history was built by young people. They just got the credit when they were older. The only way to truly learn something is by doing it. Yes, listen to guidance. But don't wait.