When people are bad at something or they think they've got bad luck, some small creators think their algorithm's broken or whatever excuse it is. Every single piece of content that you put out to the internet is going to provide you feedback. There is no such thing as a failed experiment. If you learn something from it, then it's a success. It's that successful people take ownership. I screwed up, but I can learn from that. Unsuccessful people blame other people. They've got a whole bunch of excuses. They're victims. Paul Sloan is a best-selling author and a leading expert in lateral thinking. With over two million books sold, he specialises in unlocking creative problem solving and driving innovation. What is the problem with bad luck? Whenever bad luck occurs, it's a change in what's normal. And a change means opportunities. I'm a believer in logic, I'm a believer in intuition, but I'm a believer in the unexpected.

And the unexpected is going to happen all the time.

Superstitious in thinking that a black cat or walking under a ladder will somehow shape your day, I think is wrong direction.

What kind of strategies can people use for business, but then also in their daily life?

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If I'd been hit by a metre right, walking in here today, that would be bad luck. But very often,

what we assume is bad is an opportunity. In 1990, J.K. Rowling was sitting on a train from Manchester to

London. And the train was delayed by four hours. Four hours, that's bad luck.

Anyone would say that's terrible. We've had that experience.

She didn't have a pen. That's bad luck. Normally she'd make notes.

So she just had to sit there and use her imagination,

and she constructed the whole Harry Potter world in that four hours.

Just letting her imagination run while.

And if she hadn't had that bad luck,

she wouldn't have had that unexpected opportunity.

And my new book, The Art of Unexpected Solutions,

is all about how those sorts of things

can really be opportunities for us.

And whenever bad luck occurs, it's a change in what's normal.

And a change means opportunities.

It means new openings.

It's almost when any person has lost their job or become unemployed.

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