Today, I want to share some thoughts on Luck that echoed in my mind while watching the TED talk by Tina Seelig. She explains beautifully: What Luck is and How you can increase that one step at a time. Based on 20 years of experience, she beautifully dissects the Luck into three parts. She mentions that luck is rarely an isolated and dramatic event like a lightning strike but it more like a continuous flow of wind with changing variations.
When we understand and endure on those three dissected parts of Luck, we are definitely going to get a hold of slippery and Most Awaited Lucky Break of our Life.
Get out of your Comfort Zone.
She mentions that we learn new things by risking our way into the unknown. We learned to ride bi-cycle by overcoming the fear of falling and hurting ourselves.
When we force ourselves out of our comfort zones, we are destined to learn something new. For an introvert like me, Talking to someone might be climbing Everest. But as soon as we try to strike a conversation, we realize that it is nothing more than to let your vocal cord generate sound waves that make sense. I know the previous sentence might not make sense but the sentence before that makes complete sense. A risk is all you need to grow.
Practice Gratitude
The most efficient way to be content with your life is practicing Gratitude.
Like Melody Beattie says: “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
But to those souls like me, who want to be more than they are already, Gratitude would help. It helps in creating and nurturing relationships with others. According to Tina, it helps in manufacturing your own Luck. She shares an example of how a student even after being rejected showed gratitude. It helped them to strike a conversation. It helped both of them in constructive way.
Ideas are neither Good or Bad
She advises changing the relationship that we have with ideas in order to catch that Lucky break.
We are always spot on to judge Ideas, just like we judge others by looks. Ideas are neither Bad or Good, sometimes Crazy, yes.
She shares an example of her class where her students eventually turned some crazy ideas into pretty cool and fabulous ideas.
Luck might be lurking behind that crazy idea that you just judged as a bad one and throw it in the garbage. Stick to something and execute it perfectly.
She says that Luck is a like a wind blowing at varied speeds and from unexpected directions. So, this three steps would help you construct a sail that would help you catch that Luck and ride to success.
Thank you, Professor Tina Seelig, for sharing your Knowledge, accumulated for over two-decades of your teaching career.
This article was originally published on HBRPatel
