Luck and the entrepreneur: A recap

You don’t need to be lucky to get lucky.

Sina Meraji
1 min readJan 6, 2023

Luck has 4 sources:

  1. Sheer motion
  2. Motion as a consequence of a specific curiosity
  3. Expertise
  4. Curiosity and/or expertise, pursued or practiced full time, relentlessly.

Sheer motion

Showing up to more places, talking to more people, without an agenda but just more interactions with more people and things more frequently. You are more likely to get lucky this way than someone who doesn’t show up as much.

Motion + curiosity

Show up for a curiosity, talk to people who knows about it. Increase serendipity and luck compared to those who don’t.

Expertise

The guy who created penicillin saw some spoiled food on a ship and had an aha moment that led to the discovery of a scientific concept and creation of a life saving medicine. Someone else without his expertise could’ve seen the same spoiled food and not conclude the formula for a life saving medicine.

Full time pursuit of expertise or curiosity

When people remember you as ‘the person’ doing what you do, they send opportunities your way every time they come across someone or something that reminds them of your field/curiosity.

Paraphrased an old blog post about luck and entrepreneurship, written by Marc Andreesen.

My conclusion

Most luck is disciplined grind over an extended period of time, and you don’t need to be lucky to get lucky.

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Sina Meraji
Sina Meraji

Written by Sina Meraji

Founder and CEO of LearningLoop.org , the universal basic education

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