Lucky You

YOUTUBE c5WWTvHB_sA Sandi Metz presents at Rubyconf 2019

Sandi Metz presents this idea that you can hack luck based on a paper called The Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman.

He found there were 4 things to luck:

Pay attention. Don't be caught up in your own stuff, look at the world and be open to opportunities.

Be open. Listen to your intiution.

Expect to be lucky. Practice luck in your head.

Assume you were lucky. Interpret things that happen to you as being because of luck.

So you can make your own luck!

But wow, a lot of it has to do with how much of your environment has affected you. Sandi goes on to show her research about segregation and things that disadvantaged people by race in the united states.

So we don't go too far into the paper, but we do have a rallying cry to avoid being complicit. Sandi asks us to own this and try to fix it, even if it's not our fault.