Luck.
A random feature of life that can instantly change someone's life through a lottery ticket.
But what if it could be manipulated.
When you study highly successful people's lives, you start seeing how much luck has been involved in their journey.
Steve Jobs took a calligraphy class taught by a Trappist monk. Ten years later, it became the foundation for Apple's typography — the first computer at that time to have dynamic fonts.
Nvidia was founded at a Denny's diner outside San Jose, where three guys, including Jensen Huang, discussed the idea over dollar coffees.
Their breakthroughs came from chance meetings, unexpected skills they acquired, and spontaneous ideas at a fast food restaurant.
They weren't any luckier than the average joe. They simply positioned themselves better for it by learning something new, and not dejecting themselves from ideas that others thought were too ambitious.
If you want to become luckier, go learn a random skill, try out different things, and have unplanned conversations with strangers in an elevator.
Because you can't force luck to happen, but you can increase your surface area for it.