![]() In his observation, people who get dead-ended are very often people who allow themselves to become isolated. Never sit on the sidelines.Įric Wachtel, a New York management consultant and executive recruiter, has watched literally hundreds of men and women climbing career ladders. Make contact with people and get involved. When you meet these people, use these tips to quickly build rapport. The lucky personality gets to know everybody in sight: the rich and the poor, the famous, the humble, the sociable and even the friendless and the cranky. The theory being that if you’re a hermit, nothing will ever happen. The idea here is to be where things are happening and surround yourself with a lot of people and interactions. Can you rely on your own or others’ planning, or will the outcome be determined by luck? The trick is to know what kind of situation you are in at any given time. Planning may be more important than luck in much of what you do. What it does mean is that the lucky personality, entering a situation and perceiving it to be ruled or heavily influenced by luck, deliberately stays light-footed, ready to jump this way or that as events unfold. Quite the contrary, as we will see later. This isn’t to say he or she avoids taking risks. The lucky personality avoids getting trapped in that way. The loser studies it, ascribes it to planning, and concludes that the same planning will produce the same result in the future. The process begins when a good result occurs once or a few times. You don’t expect things to continue, no that’s for the people who don’t acknowledge the role of luck because they mix up planning and luck. When you see that luck plays a role, you’re more likely to be aware that the situation can change. If you do that, you all but guarantee that your luck, in the long run, will be bad. Don’t try to tell yourself the outcome came about because you were smart. When a desired outcome is brought about by luck, you must acknowledge that fact. If you want to be a winner, you must stay keenly aware of the role luck plays in your life. When winners win, it’s because they were smart. Technique 1: Acknowledge The Role of Luck It turns out that lucky people characteristically organize their lives in such a way that they are in position to experience good luck and to avoid bad luck. ![]() In How to Get Lucky: 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life’s good breaks, Max Gunther shows us how. While we can’t control it, we can improve it. However elusive, luck is something that we can cultivate. The most talented team doesn’t always win, luck plays a role. This continuum is also what makes watching sports fun. Yet much of life is the combination, to varying degrees, of skill and luck. You can’t ignore luck and you really can’t plan for it. That is until we’re one of those smart people who has a bad outcome because of luck. We tend to think that smart people make good decisions and stupid people make bad decisions and that luck plays very little role.
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