There is this awesome podcast called How I Built This. On HIBT the podcast interviewer interviews founders of companies and lets the founders tell their stories about how the company started and is or isn’t functioning right now. I like the show because it gives insight that can really only be gleaned from the founders. At the end of each interview the interviewer asks how much of the companies success was luck and how much was hard work. Almost always the answer is more than half good luck.
The answer is of course layered by the founders and not just a straight forward one. Most founders acknowledge the good luck they received in life through opportunities they were afforded at all stages so far of their lives. The answers got me to thinking about how these opportunities manifest themselves for us and others.
We as a group have a rare opportunity to generate good luck for others through charity and education. By giving our time and talent we can actually give people luck. It has been said before that successful folks make their own luck but I think that statement needs to be changed to ” successful people make other peoples luck.
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