This same point can be generalized to life: maximize the serendipity around you. Sextus Empiricus retold the story of Apelles the Painter, who, while doing a portrait of a horse, was attempting to depict the foam from the horse’s mouth. After trying very hard and making a mess, he gave up and, in irritation, took the sponge he used for cleaning his brush and threw it at the picture. Where the sponge hit, it left a perfect representation of the foam.
Taleb, Nassim. The Black Swan (p. 204). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition.
Avoid the negative black swans but embrace and expose yourself maximally to the positive ones. Find ways to attract the serendipity. In environments where being wrong has little cost while being right has massive payoffs.
What are such environments? Where you have many inputs, where you can fail safely, etc.
Have such environments
Key to life. Increase your web of possibilities. Try. Try. Try.
Ask yourself every day what new thibg can i do today. It can be even small as trying a new butter brand. Just aim to increasingthe size of your network