How to Get Lucky

The title of the tweetstorm that inspired my learning and made naval into a guro of sorts is ‘how to get rich, without getting lucky’. And in this tweetstorm naval highlights how you can in fact create your own luck, not the blind random lucky we usual think about. Naval wants use to create a system for ourselves that we would be rich in 999 or 1000 parrallel worlds.

He goes on to explain how he thinks there are four main ways to get lucky.;

1. Blind luck, i.e. hope luck finds you
2. Hustle hard until you stumble into it.
3. Prepare the mind and be sensitive to chances others miss.
4. Become the best at what you do. Refine what you do until this is true. Opportunity will seek you out. Luck becomes your destiny.

Somes examples of the respective categories:

1. Winning the lottery
2. Working hard, putting out loads of content and building your personal brand e.g. Ali Abdaal
3. Entrepreneurs or investors that detect opportunities e.g. Kevin Rose
4. Tim Ferriss, Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates

So in reality there are three ways to get lucky that aren’t random. The easiest one to start with is to start hustling hard until you stumble into it. That hustle and iteration of work, helps prepare the mind to be sensitive to the opportunities that work, allowing you another avenue to luck.

Over the years of hustling hard and being sensitive to opportunities people miss you will invetiabiliy become the best in the world at what you do. When you are the best in the world at your job, opportunities will come to you and as naval says, luck will become your destiny.

I am still on working on getting luck through hustling hard. I have only started my hustle and it may take years but I will eventually get there.