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Respecting luck as much as you respect risk.
Ever wonder why things don't always go as planned? It could be either because you took a risk or because you were lucky. Risk is the result of good decisions that lead to an unfavorable outcome, while luck is when you make poor or average decisions but still get a great outcome.
Luck = good outcomes from mediocre/ bad decisions🎲
Risk = bad outcomes from good decisions🤞
Luck and risk🗝
Yet both are beyond your control because the world is too complicated for your actions to determine the outcome completely.
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The article outlines essential but often overlooked skills such as accepting hassle, recognizing biases, respectfully disagreeing, engaging in diverse conversations, concise communication, diplomatically saying "No," and balancing luck and risk.
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