How to Actually Get Lucky

People always say, “I hope you get lucky.”

New Year. Birthdays. Big moments.

We all want it.

For a long time, I thought luck was random. That there are a few big moments in life, and if you miss them, that's it.

Now I think it works differently.

It's not one moment.

It's many small ones.

Most of them don't look important when they happen.

The more I think about it, the more luck feels like exposure.

If nothing changes in your life, nothing new can happen to you.

Same routine. Same people. Same environment.

You're not unlucky.

You're just not in enough places for something to happen.

What seems to matter is how many situations you put yourself in.

Not in a forced way. Just consistently.

Sending one message doesn't change anything.

But sending ten might.

Going to one event might not matter.

But going every week, talking to people, following up — something eventually moves.

Most people rely on one path.

One idea. One plan.

If it doesn't work, they stop and assume it wasn't meant to be.

I've done that too.

It feels efficient, but it's fragile.

What has worked better for me is keeping multiple paths open at the same time.

Not perfectly. Just enough to create options.

Take something simple.

If your goal is to be in San Francisco building a company, there isn't one way to get there.

You could:

• go through university
• get into an accelerator
• raise money and move
• build something remotely until it grows
• join a startup and transition

Each one is a different door.

If you only focus on one and it doesn't work, everything stops.

If you push several at the same time, your chances increase. One of them eventually opens.

Same with building a startup.

If you apply to one accelerator and get rejected, it doesn't mean much.

Apply to ten, twenty, more.

At the same time, build.

Talk to users. Ship something. Get feedback.

If no accelerator accepts you, but you have traction, you might not need one.

Sometimes the path you thought was necessary isn't.

Same with getting users.

You can post a few times on one platform and wait.

Or you can spread across multiple channels.

• Short videos.
• Reddit posts.
• Direct outreach.
• Communities.
• Partnerships.

Most of it won't work.

But one piece of content, one post, one introduction can change everything.

From the outside, it looks like luck.

From the inside, it's just a lot of attempts.

I think that's the pattern.

More attempts → more exposure → higher chance something connects.

Personally, I've been lucky in many ways.

But when I look closer, most of it came from being in motion.

• Moving between places.
• Reaching out to people.
• Trying different ideas.
• Putting myself in environments where something could happen.

None of those things guaranteed anything.

But they created opportunities that didn't exist before.

And most of the time, nothing happens immediately.

That's another part people don't talk about.

You send messages and get no reply.

You try ideas that don't work.

You show up and nothing comes out of it.

Then, randomly, something connects.

A reply.

An introduction.

An opportunity.

That's the part people call luck.

I don't think you can control outcomes.

But you can control how many chances you give yourself.

If you only give yourself one chance, it's easy to miss.

If you give yourself many, it becomes harder not to hit something over time.

So instead of asking how to get lucky, it's probably better to ask:

how many ways am I giving this a chance to work?

That's the closest thing to luck I've seen.