“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” — Seneca

“What we call luck is often not purely random, but rather the delayed byproduct of consistently putting yourself in good positions.” — James Clear

“People are always claiming that success is a matter of luck, but as Pasteur pointed out, “Luck favors the prepared mind.” […] Many times a discussion with a person who has just done something important will produce a description of how they were led, almost step by step, to the result. It is usually based on things they had done, or intensely thought about, years ago. You succeed because you have prepared yourself with the necessary background long ago, without, of course, knowing then that it would prove to be a necessary step to success.” — Richard Hamming

“Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get.” — Ray Kroc

“Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.” — Serena William

“Even if you don’t catch the Apple before it hits the ground, so long as you’re the first one to pick it up.” — Jensen Huang, NVIDIA’s CEO ^{1 2}

你要儘量靠近果樹，即使來不及接住掉落的蘋果，也要當第一個撿起來的人。

「運氣」並非偶然發生，它只降臨在隨著期望而行動的人身上。等到運氣降臨後再來思考，已經為時已晚了。要把自己提升到隨時能看準、抓住機會，並持續等待。擁有那種敏感嗅覺的人，幸運女神才會對他露出微笑。 — 動畫《BLUE LOCK 藍色監獄》

The Formula

by Jason Roberts

$Luck = Doing \times Telling$

The 4 Types Of Luck 3

Naval 重新詮釋了 James H. Austin 的四種 Chance 理論，把運氣分成四種：

“Return On Luck (ROL)” By Jim Collins

• Great companies do not get disproportionately more good luck than others, but they do disproportionately benefit from the good luck they get, i.e., they generate high ROL.

How To Increase Your Luck Surface Area?

Luck = Randomness × Readiness

1. Expose yourself to more randomness.
2. Be prepared to act on those opportunities when they present themselves.

Serendipity is not a mysterious force of luck but a manageable byproduct of high activity and openness. By maximizing one’s “serendipity surface area”—the total volume of work created, people met, and ideas shared—individuals can transition from waiting for opportunities to becoming a magnet for them.

輸給運氣，只是失敗的人安慰自己的話；想贏的人，連運氣都想盡辦法掌握。

How to engineer luck by George Mack