A Moving Man Always Meets His Luck

For three years I was jealous of my best friend. Everything he touched turned to gold, while I sat on the sidelines and watched.

One year ago I decided to change that, and it started with my body: waking up at 5 am, going to the gym every day, fixing my diet. Since then I got into a really competitive internship program in Washington, D.C., did interviews with some of the biggest politicians in Belgium, wrote an opinion piece for the newspaper, and landed an internship in the European Parliament with one cold email instead of 500 applications.

None of that was luck falling from the sky. You can’t control how much it rains, but you can control the size of your bucket. Here are the five ways I’ve increased my surface area for luck in the past year, and that you can apply right now.

0:00 Jealous of my best friend
0:52 One year ago I decided to change
2:06 Way 1: Asymmetrical bets
3:22 Way 2: The advantage in your bad luck
4:08 Way 3: Full ownership of your life
4:26 Way 4: The density of luck
5:24 Way 5: Luck compounds

A moving man always meets his luck. Keep increasing your surface area for luck, my friends.