RICKERT

• Most of us learn to base our self-worth on comparisons and competition. We think about succeeding in terms of someone else failing—if I win, you lose; or if you win, I lose. Life becomes a zero-sum game. We all play the game, but how much fun is it really?

• Win-win sees life as a

You can only control the slope of your success, not your initial position.

Regardless of where you start, your habits are putting you in a path to success. Your good luck requires hard work if you want to sustain your success.

Luck is often a combination of the right connections, the right timing, and many other influences that cannot be predicted. Hard work typically gets better results than you would with less effort.

Luck matters more in an absolute sense a...