Letters To Questers | On Luck (Part 1/2)

Your problem isn’t 'bad luck'—it’s HOW you 'see' luck. And how much is that costing you...

Your problem isn’t 'bad luck'—it’s HOW you 'see' luck.

And how much is that costing you...

Why?

Because how you see luck is how you see uncertainty. How you see uncertainty is how you see OPPORTUNITY.

Here’s the real issue:

Our Western perception of ‘luck’ is linear and fragmented.

We rush to reduce the unfolding complexity of events into simplistic narratives with begin and end.

Ancient Eastern thinkers saw it differently.

To them, luck is only meaningful in relation to the whole.

Not linear.
Not fragmented.
But on its WHOLNESS.

“
While taming one of the wild horses, the farmer’s son falls and breaks his leg.
The neighbours come over, full of sympathy, "Oh no, that’s bad luck".
To which the farmer replies, "Maybe".
"
—The Chinese Farmer Story