Tina Selig

I think a lot of people think that luck just happens, and some people are luckier than others.

And what I'm trying to do is to show people the amount of agency they have in their lives to make the things they want come to life.

Thank you so much.

I'm delighted to be here.

And this is really a perfect place to start.

First of all, the definition of luck is success or failure apparently caused by chance.

And the most interesting thing there is the word apparently.

And that's what I've been really diving into is that what is actually behind the curtain when people are lucky, what are the things they've actually done?

So that's one piece of the puzzle.

The other thing that's very important to get set at the beginning is that there's a very big difference between fortune and luck.

Fortune is things that happen to you.

Luck is something that you have some agency over.

So you don't control who your parents are or what the weather is today or whether there's a pandemic.

But you do control whether you say hello to the person standing next to you in line and open up a whole world of possibilities.

So there's a big difference.

Well, chance is also interesting.

There's a big difference between chance and gambling, right?

If I buy a lottery ticket, that's gambling.

I have no control over the outcome.

But if I play poker, that's a game of chance.