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luck is a big factor but being in the right place at the right time maximizes the probability of getting lucky


"Being in the right place at the right time" is a vast majority of what luck brings you.


no, I don't think of it that way. As an example, if you moved to Silicon Valley in 1999 and made it a point to try to get a job at a cool startup, you might have at least had a chance to end up at Google as an early employee. But you had no such opportunity if you moved to Wichita, Kansas because you thought it was cheaper, or whatever the reason.




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