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“The Luck Razor”

How to Increase Your Luck Surface Area

Luck is not always about chance. Often, it is about creating the right conditions for good fortune to find you. This is where the concept of The Luck Razor comes in. It suggests that when choosing between two paths, you should take the one with a larger luck surface area. This simply means choosing the option that gives you more opportunities to encounter luck.

What Is Luck Surface Area?

Your luck surface area is the sum of your actions, exposure, and engagement with the world. The more people you meet, the more skills you develop, and the more projects you pursue, the bigger your surface area becomes. This increases the likelihood of lucky breaks. Sitting at home watching TV rarely leads to life-changing opportunities. Being out in the world, learning, and interacting with others does.

Why Action Creates Luck

Luck favors the active. When you take action, you put yourself in situations where good things can happen. Meeting someone new could lead to a business partnership. Attending a workshop might give you the skills that open unexpected doors. Even a small step forward creates ripples that can connect you with unexpected opportunities.

Choosing the Path of Greater Luck

When faced with a decision, ask yourself:

Which path exposes me to more people, ideas, and experiences? Which option will teach me something valuable? Which choice expands my network or my skills?

The answer is often the one with a greater luck surface area. It is not always the easiest or most comfortable choice, but it is the one more likely to change your life.

Practical Ways to Grow Your Luck Surface Area

Attend events: Conferences, meetups, and workshops increase your exposure to people and ideas. Learn new skills: The more you know, the more valuable you become. Share your work: Let people see what you are doing. It opens the door for collaborations. Say yes more often: Opportunities often hide behind unexpected invitations.

Thoughts

Luck is rarely pure chance. Most “lucky” people are simply those who consistently put themselves in places where luck can find them. Grow your luck surface area and you increase your odds of success.

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Zsolt Zsemba

Zsolt Zsemba has worn many different hats. He has been an entrepreneur, and businessman for over 30 years. Living abroad has given him many amazing experiences in life and also sparked his imagination for writing. After moving to Canada from Hungary at the age of 10 and working in a family business for a large part of his life. The switch from manufacturing to writing came surprisingly easily for him. His passion for writing began at age 12, mostly writing poetry and short stories. In 1999, the chance came to write scripts. Zsolt took some time off from his family business to write in Jakarta Indonesia for MD Entertainment. Having written dozens of soap operas and made for TV movies, in 2003 Zsolt returned to the family business once more. In 2018, he had the chance to head back to Asia once again. He took on the challenge to be the COO for MD Pictures and get back into the entertainment business. The entertainment business opened up the desire to write once more and the words began to flow onto the pages again. He decided to rewrite a book he began years ago. Organ House was reborn and is a fiction suspense novel while Scars is a young adult drama focused on life’s challenges. After the first two books, his desire to write not only became more challenging but enjoyable as well. After having several books completed he was convinced to publish them for your enjoyment. Zsolt does not tend to stay in one specific genre but tends to lean towards strong female leads and horror. Though he also has a few human interest books, he tends to write about whatever brews in his brain for a while.