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• Actionable Insights: How to Increase Your Luck

• The One Section: Perspective on limited time and making the most of it, Andrew Huberman’s insights, Quote on meditation, and more

• What I’m Reading: Reviews of books I completed (Nutrition, productivity, and Psychology)

• Content I shared: My mediation journey, psychology bias, books on meditation

How to Increase Your Luck

Most of us believe that we make our own luck through hard work. True, hard work is required but you can’t rule out the role of luck.

We are conditioned to deny the role of luck as a culture because acknowledging luck will mean accepting the fact that we don’t have complete control over our life. Acknowledging luck takes half the meaning out of life.

We don’t want to accept the fact that life is completely random and meaningless. The fact even if you do everything right, bad luck can still knock you down.

So the first step is to accept the role of luck, good or bad. Now, there are ways to increase your surface area of luck.

This graphic by Tim Urban beautifully illustrates how based on your choices your life can take n number of trajectories at any point of time in your life. Amazing right? But the problems are like this:

• Most people don’t really try new things

• Most people don’t visit new places

• Most people will do what they did last week and the week before that

• Most people don’t meet like-minded people

Most people are the unlucky ones. Don’t be most people.

1. Visit new places every time you go out. That will expose you to a possibility of a different timeline. It’s not a hard and fast rule but don’t visit the same places.

2. Try new stuff. Being lucky is not just meeting someone or landing an opportunity. It’s also coming up with an idea. When you try something new your brain gets new information and connects it with your existing database of knowledge. This can turn out to be a possible alchemy of a new idea. The idea of your next great business or project that will change your life forever or steer it in an exciting direction.

3. This also includes exposing yourself to new people online. If you are an artist and don’t post on LinkedIn, try doing that. If you don’t have a website, get one. The point is to keep trying new things to market yourself and your work. You never know what brings your lucky break.

4. Go to events or places where you can meet like-minded people. Most people stay restricted to their college group and people in their professional circle. I believe that meeting the right person can change your life. Open a new timeline.
   
   I have organized more than 100 events and I’ve seen people falling in love, starting a company together, finding an investor, and so on. These are the people I personally knew and could follow up on their stories. I’m sure, there must have been hundreds of such stories. Events are like the hotspot of different timelines.

By doing these things you increase the chances of luck in your life. Who knows where you will get your next big luck event?

The big luck events (as I like to call them) change your life in a big way. You will get 5 to 7 of them in your whole life if you’re really lucky and that’s all you need to be successful.

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It’s been 3 weeks since I last share the update with you. I have finished reading The One Thing by Gary Keller, The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog by Bruce D. Perry, and Food Rules: An Eater's Manual by Michael Pollan.

The One Thing is a great book. It has everything one needs to know for personal growth. If you have to pick one book to start with in productivity and personal growth space, I’ll recommend this one.

The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog was an absolute delight to read. These are real stories and keep you gripped throughout. You go through it slowly. The author does a great job of explaining the psychological reasons in simple language that a layperson can also understand. It also helps you understand your traumas and mishappenings in childhood. Highly Recommended especially if you’re into psychology.

Food Rules: An Eater's Manual is a good book but hard to recommend. All the rules are on point but I’m someone who knows about the background and context of these rules. The impact of these rules, I believe won’t be profound if you don’t know the reasons in detail. Do read it since it’s such a short book you can complete in an hour or two. But if you want to delve deeper into the science of these rules read Deep Nutrition and In Defence of Food.

I’m reading more than 5 books at the moment but I’ll focus on completing The Slight Edge and Deep Work by next week.

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