Canna Campbell
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And there is Professor Alessandro Pulcino, who is, I believe, an Italian professor of theoretical physics.
And he's won two Nobel Prizes about this.
And he was actually โ this is, I think, important to flag before we jump into the next question, but he was able from his studies to prove that success is actually โ and success, when I say luck, is from talent, from, of course, lucky events, but also from taking actions.
And what his studies showed is it isn't actually necessarily the smartest people โ
or even the most talented people that were lucky and successful, it was simply because they actually acted on those opportunities.
So yes, luck might open the door, but you've still got to be able to turn that doorknob and walk through bravely.
So this is to answer your question about, you know, luck and positioning.
So luck is obviously being in the right place at the right time.
You know, just got lucky.
Positioning is different in that you intentionally put yourself in places where, you know, these opportunities can find you and even land in your lap.
So it's like someone who really wants to meet a new partner.
You know, they've been...
single for a while and they desperately want to meet the one.
But yet they go and spend all their weekends sitting at home watching Netflix.
They're not positioning themselves to go and meet someone.
Out of the blue, bump into them, they're staying at home.
So they're not positioning themselves in order to help make that luck actually happen.
No, think about it from a practical point of view.
When you put yourself out there and you have connections with people and you see opportunities but you also then act on opportunities, this is where we start to create the shifts and we start to actually see that there is an ability or an opportunity to make things different and better.