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by possiblydrunk 1283 days ago
A key point in the article:

>"...Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.”

>Hard work increases the likelihood of luck finding you, and hard work also prepares you for when it does.

You can't reliably produce luck, even by imitating people that are "lucky"; all you can do is increase the likelihood that you might capitalize on luck.