Gross: Increasing luck requires actively seeking opportunities and acting on them
Daniel Gross · #56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success · Apr 16, 2019 · at 20:11
Daniel Gross, founder of Pioneer and former Y Combinator partner, discusses with Shane Parrish how individuals can systematically increase their exposure to luck.
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“The trick to basically becoming more lucky, and there was a cool study about this a while ago, is you can actually increase your odds of luck in the world. You know, you don't even really need pioneer. You just have to do this interesting, hard, psychologically hard task of, number one, kind of walking around the planet with a metal detector. So you have to constantly be listening for opportunity even if it feels psychologically uncomfortable to pursue that opportunity. And then second, and this is the trick I think most people Including myself could do a much better job of doing. You have to learn to act on it when it fires. You know, when that metal detector fires and that weird opportunity comes up in front of you, the thing most people do is they go back to their local maxima and they don't explore. They continue exploiting.”
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