From the Inspirational Thought Unit
I was talking with my buddy Kohl about the role luck plays in your success in life.
I listen to this podcast from time to time about how successful businesses were built and at the end of each interview the host asks the same question:
“How much of your success is due to your skill and hard work and how much is due to luck?”
And EVERY SINGLE answer is “we worked hard yes, but we were also very lucky”
You'd have to be pretty clueless to think that luck has nothing to do with your success (or failure) in your creative pursuits. It's a factor just as much as skill and work.
I have another friend who put it succinctly:
“Each time you create is a role of the dice. The only thing you can control is how many times you roll the dice.”
It's not up to me if something I do is successful, but it is up to me to show up every day, create something, and share it. And guess what, a few times over these last several years I actually got lucky.
I hope you get lucky too. What dice are you going to roll today?
-Jake