Mike Carruthers

But is there any sense that the people who do something different with the luck that comes their way, good or bad, have a better outcome because they do something?

Well, it's interesting that, and it must be hard for you to study luck because luck happens constantly.

in unpredictable ways.

If it was predictable, it wouldn't be luck.

If it's a system, if it's a managed outcome, then it's not luck.

That's kind of the definition of luck.

And it's interesting how people say they know how to be lucky, often in gambling.

But if you have a system to be lucky, then I don't think it's luck.

Then it's just a managed outcome.

We're talking about how important randomness and luck are in how your life goes, and my guest is Mark Robert Rank, author of the book, The Random Factor.

So, Mark, do you think you can say, because you've mentioned several times that, you know, random things happen to people, that meeting on the train, the random occurrence that happens that turns into something.

So therefore, you might want to.

come to the conclusion that so you should do a lot more of that because luck will come your way as opposed to staying home and watching television where you're not out interacting with the world where that's where the luck is, good and bad.

If you're home watching TV, you're just home watching TV.

And sadly, that lesson has been well learned by people who send spam and things.

They'll send millions of them because they know the more they send, the more likely somebody's going to fall for it.

But there's a difference between persistence and luck.

But it's interesting, you know, when you're playing roulette, it truly is luck.

When you're trying to get published...

It may be luck, but it also, it has to be good.