Life is series of lost, found, and lucky breaks
Get lost with your experiments so you can find your lucky breaks
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We all want to be successful. If you zoom into the daily lives of successful people, you will find that they are often lost. They are confused, not knowing if they will survive another day and doubting if they are on the right track or if they are doing the right things. Like all of us. Yet, there is one aspect that differentiates them from the rest of us.
They follow a system. As Michael Mauboussin says, when you have a good process, you inevitably obtain a good outcome, which looks like a lucky break to the outsiders. They follow a process, whether it rains or shines. This routine gives them the power to carry on even when everything around them looks dull or dark.
Their system has most of the following components.
They have a vision
They keep experimenting
They know what to measure
They calibrate
They celebrate
They are in it for the long haul
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