Does success come down to luck?👀✍️

Gooooood morning!

I’m sitting on my balcony and the sun is beaming in my eyes so I’m squinting at the screen.

My neighbors just let out their dogs to take their morning piss on this mat of grass that they’ve been trained to urinate on.

They have these two little beige pugs named Ricco and Rocco.

Those aren’t actually their real names but it’s what I would have named them.

I’m going to steal them one day.

Anyway, let’s talk about how to get lucky.

Some people say luck doesn’t exist.

Others believe everyone who’s successful gets lucky.

In my opinion, both of the above statements are true, even though they’re contradictory.

This is called a paradox, in case you slept through that part of English class.

I watched a movie last night that had Miles Teller in it and began thinking about how you end up as a world famous actor.

Sure, he’s great at what he does.

But so are the tens of thousands of broke actors.

There are plenty of people with the same look, talent, and work ethic.

Why is he one of few who makes it?

Is it luck?

No.

Well, yes.

Well, kind of.

If you run a quick Google search on Miles Teller, you’ll see that he made his first feature film in 2010.

Three years later, he starred in “The Spectacular Now” which put him on the map.

And then the film, “Whiplash” a year later was his big breakthrough.

Now he’s one of the more popular actors and was recently in Top Gun with Tom Cruise.

But you don’t hear about all the projects that flopped.

From 2004-2010 he was in a bunch of movies neither of us have ever heard of.

Then he had a few “big breaks” and his life changed forever.

This is how success works.

The majority of the time that you put in, especially in the beginning, will feel like it’s all for nothing.

You’ll think to yourself, “why am I even working this hard? Nobody’s gonna notice me anyway.”

It’s an uphill battle and you have no idea where the top of the hill is.

You just keep climbing and hope that eventually you find it, which isn’t guaranteed.

You could climb for decades and still end up as one of the unknown actors who never found a good role.

It’s a gamble.

Maybe you’ll get lucky, maybe you won’t.

However, there are ways that you can increase your chances.

Consistency plus iteration creates luck.

I think that's the smartest thing I’ve said all year.

If you don’t quit and you continually strive to get better at the craft, you have a chance.

Worst case scenario, it’s likely that your effort will result in an opportunity, even if it’s not the one you were anticipating.

And best case scenario…

Well, the sky's the limit.

Happy hunting,

Griff

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