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Success is a Numbers Game — Here’s How to Stack the Odds in Your Favor
Life is a game of probabilities, and you can directly — and indirectly — control the outcome
“Your success is the combination of an unaccountably large number of factors, moments and decisions.”
-The Unfair Advantage, by Ash Ali and Hasan Kubba
Our lives are swimming in infinite potential, and how you navigate the possibilities that are open to you directly determines the course of your one and only life.
During the course of the average day, we each think between 30,000–60,000 independent thoughts! We also face a dizzying array of options and choices — everything from which shoe to put on first, to whether or not today’s the day we turn right around at our office door and vow never to return.
We could pull an Anna Karenina and throw ourselves in front of a train (note to self: don’t do that!); or we could walk across town to a store we’ve never been to and give $20 to the first 5 people we meet on the way there. I’ve done something like this, except with $50 bills to homeless people.
