Luck

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Naval Ravikant's Way to Get Lucky

Here are the four ways Naval lists a person can get lucky in the book The Almanack of Naval Ravikant:

• Hope luck finds you.
• Hustle until you stumble into it.
• Prepare the mind and be sensitive to chance others might miss
• Become the best at what you do. Refine what you do until this is true. Opportunity will seek you out. Luck becomes your destiny. 

Quotes for Today

Some quotes that I hope may resonate with you.

"Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them." - Aristotle

"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock." - Thomas Jefferson

"Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster." - Hunter S. Thompson

"Success is not guaranteed, but excitement is!" - Elon Musk

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Bad luck is easy to identify when you fail and good luck is easy to ignore when you succeed." - Morgan Housel

"Read books, avoid news." - Naval Ravikant

"Admitting that masks do not work would require that authorities admit that they were not virtuous, but ignorant." - Kevin Bass 

"To love only what happens... No greater harmony." - Marcus Aurelius

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

 "You're not going to get very far in life based on what you already know." - Charlie Munger

"A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it." - Albert Einstein

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity." - Seneca

"Peace doesn't require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there." - Byron Katie

"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than how you think it should be." - Wayne Dyer

"Indifference to external events. And a commitment to justice in your own acts." - Marcus Aurelius

"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well." - Jack London

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

What are the chances that Tesla introduces an e-bike to their product line? It would instantly become the best selling e-bike on the planet... "We suffer more in imagination than in reality." - Seneca... Why is it that when things like Occupy Wall Street or the "Autonomous Zone" in Seattle happen the first victim is always personal hygiene?... "If you want to get better at this thing called life, you have to pay attention. When you pay attention, you can remember what really matters." - Russ Roberts...Given all the fireworks (legal and otherwise) that have been set off over the last week I have to wonder how much of those were actually paid for with COVID-19 stimulus money?... "We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?" - Jean Cocteau...

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting and thought I'd share.

- This "fishing" video was just plain fun to watch

- Very cool business idea. I think this is a winner. I remember years ago when those beepers for when your table was ready first came out and this idea trumps that hands down.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson on UFO's

- HBO's upcoming series Luck looks really good. Big fan of David Milch.

- The NHL re-signs with Versus (or whatever NBC decides to call the channel) for another 10 years