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← Previous segment →. He, you know, leading the ChatGPT and other billionaire stuff, one of the smartest people on the planet, Sam Altman. And he says something very compatible with something I've said. So he said, quote, in a tweet: "Give yourself a lot of shots to get lucky is even better advice than it appears on the surface. Luck isn't an independent variable but increases superlinearly with more surface area. You meet more people, make more connections between new ideas, learn patterns, etc."
Now, what is my version of that from my book *Reframe Your Brain*? My version of that is that you can make luck happen by going where there's more of it. So if you stay in your little small town and you know three neighbors and that's all you know of the entire world, what are the odds you're going to get lucky? Because there just aren't many things happening. There's not much luck to happen. But if you go somewhere, let's say an exciting industry and an exciting place, and you meet more people and you network and you invite people over and you make more friends, you do all the things to put yourself in a greater energy situation, just more stuff happening, that's where luck happens.
So the reframe is that the old view is that some p
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eople are lucky, some people are not, and that's the end of the story. But that's sort of a loser's frame. The truth is that you can make your luck happen by going where there's more of it. So that's your first little lesson. And as Sam Altman says, although he talks about increasing your superlinearly surface area, I just say go where there's more stuff happening. That's the dumb guy's version, m…
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