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Luck or serendipity is the result of the combination of your passion and the people you tell about it. When you have a passion and you work hard on it you develop expertise. And expertise enables you to create value.
PN: Internalization leads to expertise; P: Bring the metaphysical into the physical: developing expertise.
When you create value and people hear about it, some will want to take action to capture this value. Then, many unexpected things can happen. They can offer you a job, want to invest in you, cooperate with you, pay you, and who knows what else.
The point is, these things are serendipitous. And the more people you effectively communicate your passion the higher the chance that serendipity will occur.
Furthermore, sharing your ideas with others may become a virtuous cycle for creativity where their feedback – i.e. their ideas – fuel yours, making new, unexpected, and novel combinations possible.
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PN: How to discover your path in life
Another thing you can do to find your life's task is to experiment as much as you can. Especially when you're young you should say 'yes' to almost everything you encounter. Here is why: PN: Saying YES to almost everything; P: Luck surface area; P: Use randomness to improve yourself
P: Use randomness to improve yourself
P: Luck surface area: Luck or serendipity is the combination of your expertise and the people you tell about it. If you share something valuable with people, many unexpected things can happen.
PN: Saying YES to almost everything
When you explore different niches you will build up a solid foundation of things you like and the ones you don't (you increase the size of your opportunity net P: Use randomness to improve yourself and your P: Luck surface area). You will see that for example fishing is not that interesting as it seemed at first and catching a fish isn't as pleasurable as you thought. Maybe you'll discover that running is your thing because you love to feel the wind blowing against your face as you speed along the coast. The point is, you must use this beautiful adaptation ability we all humans possess and find a niche that suits you.