Annie Duke

Yeah.

that the world has happened to us in a bad way, right?

And I think being able to just take a step back and say, luck is luck, like it just is, and that's okay.

And my job is to kind of lean into that and focus on the thing that you rightly said I do have control over, which is the decisions I'm making, you know, and understand that luck is just kind of part of the equation.

We're talking about, you can divide it into two things, right?

Luck as a force and then our view of whether that luck is good or bad.

Those are two really different things, right?

So it's kind of like gravity, right?

That's how I think about luck.

Gravity just is.

It exists, right?

Like you drop something off a building, it falls because of gravity.

It's why we don't go flying off the earth, right?

Like it holds us down.

So it's just kind of this force that exists.

That's sort of definitionally how luck sort of enters into the equation.

How we cognitively put this good or bad label on luck is a totally different thing.

And I think that just as you're saying, that's something that we really can't do until you have the passage of time.

One thing I think about, and it's kind of like in what you said, which I think can get people to understand the influence of luck, is at the moment of our birth, it's just luck.

Right?