{"id":184,"date":"2007-08-29T09:16:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T04:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/who-gets-lucky"},"modified":"2007-08-29T09:16:45","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T04:16:45","slug":"who-gets-lucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smritiweb.com\/navin\/miscellaneous\/who-gets-lucky","title":{"rendered":"Who gets lucky?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another long Marc Andreessen post<\/a>, this time talking about the different kinds of “luck” and gives ideas on how you can go about getting luck on your side. Excerpt:<\/p>\n

This of course leads to a number of challenges for how we live our lives as entrepreneurs and creators in any field:<\/p>\n

* How energetic are we? How inclined towards motion are we? Those of you who read my first age and the entrepreneur post will recognize that this is a variation on the “optimize for the maximum number of swings of the bat” principle. In a highly uncertain world, a bias to action is key to catalyzing success, and luck, and is often to be preferred to thinking things through more throughly.<\/p>\n

* How curious are we? How determined are we to learn about our chosen field, other fields, and the world around us? In my post on hiring great people, I talked about the value I place on curiosity — and specifically, curiosity over intelligence. This is why. Curious people are more likely to already have in their heads the building blocks for crafting a solution for any particular problem they come across, versus the more quote-unquote intelligent, but less curious, person who is trying to get by on logic and pure intellectual effort.<\/p>\n

* How flexible and aggressive are we at synthesizing — at linking together multiple, disparate, apparently unrelated experiences on the fly? I think this is a hard skill to consciously improve, but I think it is good to start most creative exercises with the idea that the solution may come from any of our past experiences or knowledge, as opposed to out of a textbook or the mouth of an expert. (And, if you are a manager and you have someone who is particularly good at synthesis, promote her as fast as you possibly can.)<\/p>\n

* How uniquely are we developing a personal point of view — a personal approach — a personal set of “eccentric hobbies, personal lifestyles, and motor behaviors” that will uniquely prepare us to create? This, in a nutshell, is why I believe that most creative people are better off with more life experience and journeys afield into seemingly unrelated areas, as opposed to more formal domain-specific education — at least if they want to create.<\/p>\n

In short, I think there is a roadmap to getting luck on our side, and I think this is it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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