046 - How to Create Your Own Luck, Break Through Plateaus, Relive Your Best Moments, and Show You Can Overcome Anything.
Also, three questions to ask everyone.
Here are this week’s links…
Mark Manson on Luck. (link)
Luck doesn’t just happen, it’s created. You can do things to increase the odds of serendipity. Meeting more people makes you lucky. Learning more skills makes you lucky. Being willing to fail makes you lucky. Offering to help others more often makes you lucky.
Combine with being patient. (link) Active patience. Not passive. Not doing nothing and waiting for luck to find you.
Farnam Street on One More Rep. (link)
This was timely as I was thinking about it the other day:
Just win the next meal. (In your diet.)
The next workout.
The next hour.
The next day.
The next rep.
The next breath.
Greg McKeown on the 85% rule. (link)
Contrast with the one more rep rule above.
“Setting an upper bound at 85% will help me create an effortless pace and achieve optimal results.”
I think it depends on the pursuit. If your work requires consistency and longevity, then the 85% rule makes sense.
If you’re trying to break through a plateau, then the one more rep rule is probably for you.
Khe Hy on Jar of Awesome and Jar of Shit. (link)
I’d already been keeping a log of my best moments, as I’d already seen the research on reliving your wins.
The Jar of Shit concept was new to me. Keeping a log of your worst moments to show yourself that they weren’t as bad as you thought at the time, shows your mind that you can get through whatever challenge you’re currently facing.
David Perell on John Marsh’s questions. (link)
I love a good set of questions. I already had a variation of the introduction question, but it’s reassuring to see it surface again:
Last time we spoke, he told me that he asks the same questions to everybody he meets:
How has failure shaped your life?
What are three things to always do, and three things to never do?
Who do you know that I should know, and would you introduce me?
Thanks for reading,
Andrew
