how to get luckier

you can make yourself a luckier person and it's almost mechanical there's this concept called your luck surface area and the idea is that luck is far less random than we treat it the more things you try the more people you talk to the more you show up in places the more surface there is for good things to actually land on you're just giving opportunity more chances to find you and of course the frustrating bit is that it's so much easier said than done stepping outside of your comfort zone is very difficult and anyone who tells you it isn't is trying to sell you something that isn't true but it behaves exactly like a muscle the first few times you do the uncomfortable thing it can feel awful and then it will feel slightly less awful and that discomfort is the training and unfortunately there's no shortcut around it and then there will be a tipping point it's like pushing a boulder up a hill it's all effort right up until the top and then it will start rolling down on its own at some point the momentum will stop being something that you force and push and it starts being something that will carry you so if you feel stuck right now I don't think the problem is bad luck I think your surface area is just small so do more reach out more say yes to the thing that you'd usually avoid because you're not chasing luck you're building the conditions for luck to reach you