[colanderman]

A long time ago I was inspired by a comment on HN which put this in terms of "increasing your luck surface area". The phrasing stuck with me and I've applied it to my life ever since.

[digaozao]

Good book for you: Luck Factor. It talks a lot about this.

https://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/books/the-luck-factor/

[mcguire]

...by Richard Wiseman, mentioned in the article.

[gowld]

Seems to go back to 2010 in the HN context:

https://page99test.wordpress.com/2010/11/07/making-the-front...