551: How to Make Your Own Luck - Part 2 by Mark Manson

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🗓️ 14 June 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Mark Manson was a full-time professional dating coach for men from 2008 until 2011. Sick of the industry, he wrote his first book, Models: Attract Women Through Honesty, and changed the name and focus of his business to address broader self-development topics for men. The book took off, selling tens of thousands of copies. As he branched out into deeper issues of masculinity, self-worth, and the changing cultural landscape, the site grew. By 2013, he had begun writing about larger cultural issues — gender relations, happiness, ambition, life purpose, and cultural perspectives he had gathered while living in various countries around the world. Despite the fact that the business was still directed at men, thousands of women began reading and asking for advice as well. That same year, he made the leap to his own site and domain, broadening the demographics of his audience. The site exploded, garnering millions of views each month. Episode 551: How to Make Your Own Luck - Part 2 by Mark Manson (Career Advice). The original post is located here: https://markmanson.net/how-to-make-your-own-luck Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 551, how to make your own luck.
0:04.6	Part 2 by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.net
0:07.5	and I'm Justin Molak, your very own personal narrator.
0:10.4	Welcome to the podcast where blogs are read to you so you can take a break from staring at a screen
0:14.9	and listen instead.
0:16.2	This is with permission from the authors.
0:18.1	And today's author is Mark Manson.
0:20.5	The post is a little long so I read half of it yesterday and I'm finishing it up today.
0:24.9	If you're new here or jumping around I'd recommend listening to Episode 551.
0:30.0	Now let's hear part 2 of this post from Mark and continue optimizing your life.
0:38.7	How to Make Your Own Luck Part 2 by Mark Manson of Mark Manson.net
0:44.3	2. Periodically do something stupid.
0:48.3	The perception of luck is more likely to fall on those who take a dumb risk or two.
0:52.8	Again it comes back to our perceptual biases.
0:55.4	We notice the spectacular successes and quickly forget about the fizzled failures.
1:00.2	If you're on vacation with your buddy and you decide to go on to the club by himself
1:03.6	at 5am and next thing you know is showing up in your hotel room at noon with two women
1:07.7	on his arm and stories about parting with Charlie Sheen all morning.
1:11.1	Chances are he's not some divine, purveyor, fortune, but rather he's had a lot of meaningless
1:15.7	lackluster nights at clubs and this time he happened wander into the right one at the
1:19.8	right moment.
1:21.2	Upon Navy will open you up to more potential opportunities and adventures.
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