How You Can Create Luck With Chaos
It’s like going fishing. You’re not gonna catch a fish at home. — Ian Stanley
You often read stories about a writer getting lucky because an article got noticed by an editor at some high-end publication, or a singer who got discovered at a coffee shop.
On the surface, it feels like just the right place at the right time.
What you don’t see was that was the writer’s 1,000th article and the lucky singer has been going and singing at coffee shops every day for the past two years.
Using chaos to create luck means putting yourself out there as much as possible. Creating more chaos creates more chances.
You don’t know where your next big break will come from or which video will go viral, but it’s not going to happen sitting at home. You need to expose yourself (and your work) to as much as possible.
How many times have you heard, “of all my articles, I didn’t think this was the one that would take off.”
Nicolas Cole describes this exact experience writing, “nobody really liked this article on Quora, I doubt it’ll do very well on Medium….within an hour, it started going viral, and by the end of the day it had become one of my most popular Medium articles of all time”.
The acceptance of chance’s role in our lives implies that our achievements are not wholly ours and that, in some way, we’re not entirely deserving of our success.
But as Twyla Tharp will tell you…
“Get over it. This is how the world works. In creative endeavors, luck is a skill.”
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