Good morning, my friends, and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Sua,

episode 1,8008. I recently read an article by Sahil Bloom, and he was talking about

creating luck, or in other words, expanding your luck surface area. And he refers to a movie

called Interstellar, and he talks about a scene in particular

where the protagonist, the actors in the movie are talking about this planet that is right next

to a black hole. And one of the characters says that the black hole absorbed all of the

quote unquote lucky events that might be able to spark life.

And the author goes on to say that the black hole made the luck surface area of the planet

minuscule.

So he talks a little bit more.

He says that I think about this a lot.

It's a powerful metaphor for life.

The luckiest people have a massive luck surface area. They expose themselves to more luck than the

average human. Now, when I say luck, for some people, luck is a, is an icky word because it makes

you think that it takes out of the equation, your effort, your preparation,

your hard work, which is not what we're saying.

What I'm talking about when I say luck is are the uncontrollable factors.

That's what I'm referring to when I'm reading luck here.

And he goes on to say that there are two ways to increase the size of your luck surface area. Or in other words,

to increase the odds that the ball bounces in your favor. Increase the odds that success

happens. Number one is to remove the black holes that shrink your surface area. Cut the people

and actions and things you do and don't do out of your life

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