Hello dear Human!

Welcome to this new upgrade for your brain!
Today’s upgrade will focus on developing its luck-provoking functionality 🧠

All you need to do is open your mind, and enjoy the following enhancement of yourself!

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Cognitive Pulse

 Brain warming up

Get inspired by a quote

Get doubtful about a question

True or False: Cognitive biases can lead individuals to overestimate the role of random chance in their successes, and underestimate their own influence on their luck.
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Neuronal Activation

Ability explanation, and why you must develop it.

What are we talking about?

ℹ️ - Luck surface area is the concept that expanding your experiences, efforts, and exposure to opportunities increases the likelihood of positive outcomes, as luck often follows preparedness and action.
Luck = Doing x Telling.

💪 - Expanding our luck surface area is essential to empower us to seize opportunities, cultivate a positive mindset, and foster resilience. By actively seeking experiences and connections, we enhance our potential for success and fulfillment in various aspects of life.

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Skill Encoding

 Deeper dive into the skill, with actionable learning materials.

Expanding Your Surface Area of Luck

Concept:

Expanding your "Surface Area of Luck" involves taking action on your passions and goals, embracing risk, effective networking, and sharing your journey. Luck is more like a constant wind than a rare lightning strike.

Takeaways:

1. Pursue Passionate Work: Start by taking action in your area of passion, whether through free services, volunteering, or side projects. This builds expertise and experience.

2. Take Small Risks: Consistently experiment and push your comfort zone. Use deliberate practice to deepen your expertise.

3. Expect Falls and Setbacks: Failures are part of the process. Learn from them, incorporate the lessons, and try again.

4. Build Expertise and Connections: Judge projects by their ability to expand your expertise and network in your areas of passion.

5. Expand Your Network: Make new connections and contribute meaningfully. Be open, generous, and authentic in connecting and contributing to others.

6. Share Your Passion Appropriately: Let your network know what you're doing without being overly salesy. Share your journey through various means.

7. Embrace Unexpected Opportunities: Luck often comes unexpectedly. Be open, flexible, and ready to seize opportunities that may not align with your original plan.

Catching The Wind of Luck - Talk from Harvard Professor Tina Seelig

Tina Seelig explains how luck is rarely a lightning strike, isolated and dramatic. It's much more like the wind, blowing constantly. Catching more of it is easy but not obvious. In this insightful talk, Tina Seelig shares three unexpected ways to increase your luck:

1 - Take Risks

“I encourage to take some risks that get out of your comfort zone.“
“No matter where you are in your life, no matter where you are in the world -- even if you think you're the most unlucky person, you can increase your luck by taking little risks that get you out of your comfort zone. You start building a sail to capture luck.“

2 - Show appreciation to other people

“You need to understand that everyone who helps you on your journey is playing a huge role in getting you to your goals. And if you don't show appreciation, not only are you not closing the loop, but you're missing an opportunity. When someone does something for you, they're taking that time that they could be spending on themselves or someone else, and you need to acknowledge what they're doing.”

“My favorite tactic is that at the end of every single day, I look at my calendar and review all the people I met with, and I send thank-you notes to every single person. It only takes a few minutes, but at the end of every day, I feel incredibly grateful and appreciative, and I promise you it has increased my luck.”

3 - Change your relationship with ideas.

“Most people look at new ideas that come there way and they judge them. "That's a great idea" or "That's a terrible idea." But it's actually much more nuanced. Ideas are neither good or bad. And in fact, the seeds of terrible ideas are often something truly remarkable.”

“If you look around at the companies, the ventures that are really innovative around you, the ones that we now take for granted that have changed our life, well, you know what? They all started out as crazy ideas. They started ideas that when they pitched to other people, most people said, "That's crazy, it will never work."“

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Skill Persistence

 Additional insightful content, and knowledge test.

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Additional Resources

Article - Increasing Your Luck Surface Area
Promoting your work is as crucial as doing it. The "schoolboy mindset," focusing only on work, limits success. Self-promotion, while uncomfortable, is necessary to increase your luck surface area. Both doing and telling are essential for success in various roles, including creators, employees, entrepreneurs, and startups. Sharing your work creates opportunities and ensures it gets noticed.

Book - Make Your Own Luck: How to Increase Your Odds of Success
This book, for the first time, shares insights by two people--one, a startup founder and investor in India; and the other, a successful executive of a Fortune 500 company in the US--on how to increase the odds of success.

Ted Talk - Creating Luck for Yourself
Meredith uses her life experiences to explain how luck isn't just lucky. It's a trained skill. In the talk, she emphasizes the role of luck, consisting of random luck, luck created by others, and self-generated luck. She encourages creating opportunities for oneself and helping others.

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Quiz

Introduction question answer:
Cognitive biases can lead individuals to overestimate the role of random chance in their successes and underestimate their own influence on their luck. 👉 True

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Nicolas