Tina Selig

I could actually get better at it.

So I think it's very important to distinguish between the two, just as the difference between fortune and luck.

Because if you take a chance and throw your hat in the ring for a new job, you can really set yourself up to be much more successful if you're really well prepared and you go about it the right way.

Exactly.

You can gamble and you can't win unless you play, but you can't affect the outcome.

But with something that's a game of chance or taking a chance, if I take a chance and asking someone out on a date, the way I do it changes the outcome.

If I'm polite and I'm dressed nicely and I'm

approach someone in the right way, it's much more likely that they're going to say yes to me, even though I've taken a chance.

Oh, I just love you brought that up, okay?

Whenever I tell people that I'm writing a book and doing research on luck, they say, oh, yes, yes, fortune favors the prepared mind.

usually that, or fortune favors the bold.

And one of the things I always question is, okay, so what is a prepared mind?

Just like people often say, oh, yes, yes, the harder I work, the luckier I get.

Well, the question becomes, what is that hard work?

So that's what I've been trying to unpack, both the apparently in the luck is apparently caused by chance, what is a prepared mind, and also what is the hard work?

So essentially trying to figure out the physics of luck, you know, what actually is going on behind the scenes for people who are luckier than others.

Oh my gosh, there's so many things.

So you have to start, the framework that I created is that luck is like the wind.

Luck is ubiquitous.

It's very powerful, but you often can't see it and you wouldn't even know it was there unless you build a sail to catch it.