Eric Jorgenson

And so if you find yourself in that position where there's something hard to do and there's something easy to do, if you just become good at making yourself do the hard thing, your life will become better as a result.

There's probably something

magical that's on the other side of something you're avoiding.

And if you just build a habit of tackling that, a lot of problems will take care of themselves.

That's one.

Paul Graham has a similar thing competitively, which is just like run upstairs.

You know, if you're fighting a big company, do something really hard that they're going to find it very difficult to imitate.

Working out is hard.

Being fat is hard.

Yeah.

And this ties in well with the sort of authenticity and specific knowledge, because the ultimate form of luck is to like be the kind of person that luck is your destiny, right?

Like opportunities just befall you.

So the blind luck is the first, right?

Which is what most people think of.

Like, did you walk over a hundred dollar bill today or not?

Did you pick it up?

Did you notice it?

What was the second?

Luck through persistence.

Okay.