Consistency is not exactly the key.

2026 Day 169. #PersonalDays.

We have all tried to stick to things often for nothing. General advice seems to be that we need to stick around for longer. Things do not come easily and so we need to do this on repeat and one day we will be rewarded for our hard work. The promise of success is what keeps us going.

Repetition is not a good teacher in itself. You could repeat your mistakes forever and never get anything out of it. For it to mean something, you must observe what you did wrong and learn from it. By eliminating mistakes one by one, you are not closer to blaming the only thing left in your path, Luck.

A few scenarios that can help minimise faults in your actions, so that you are only waiting for the lucky break.

Social Media/Digital Fame.

This is by far the easiest to crack, or rather the one that relies on luck the most.

You could spend hours on creating the perfect content but someone with a 10 second video about “creating more over creating better” will get more views.

The most basic idea here is understand who you are and what do you want to share. Do not pick ideas that are popular, but pick what you are good at or like. You do not have to limit yourself to one, but don’t overreach.

Create content for about 30 days, without posting. At the end you will have

1. Enough content to post without working too much.
2. Learn about your creative pipeline, how much editing you need, what is the time to upload after the last shot, etc. Streamline this as much as possible so the next ones have a pattern to follow.
3. Upload and observe. More of what works, less of what does not work, a little of what you like. There are various posting strategies on the internet, but here is the secret sauce — you can post as much as you like. A good idea is post as frequently as you can create it.
4. Wait for your lucky break. People will give you loads of strategies to success, you can use them in addition to these but the leading factor beyond this point remains how lucky you are.

Academic.

A certain level of skill is required in knowing how to learn. To an extent you can brute-force success but beyond a certain level of difficulty and ideation, you need a little bit of luck to go the extra mile.

Steps to success

1. Learn how to learn, the learning pattern is very specific to you, so find and experiment. Learning is skill and not many realise this.
2. Always look at examples that might be a close representation of what you can expect in your test.
3. There might be more strategies specific to a test or a course, look them up.
4. Beyond this, it all depends on how lucky you are on the day. Some days I have felt stuck only for a perfect recall to hit me at the last moment. Other days I knew any effort during the exam was hopeless, so I just moved on.
5. Immediate factors such as heat, silence, anxiety can affect your performance, remember to not let the environment affect you.

Business.

This is the most complicated, because there are so many variables that you simply cannot account for everything. Even still there is a lot to learn from how to manage money and people, to structuring debt and funding, sales, etc. Follow these ideas for a slight edge.

1. The majority of the books on money and mentality that recount the life of a successful person are not very useful. They do not account for the idea that if a bet had not paid of, the successful person could been ruined, an outcast, and probably never mentioned anywhere. Your journey is your journey and you must focus on it.
2. Books about how a person navigated certain situations and decisions can be useful. It can teach you how to get better at decision making, but even though you face the exact situation and make the exact choice, you might still fail because you were unlucky.
3. A lot of people talk about intuition but it is mostly a learned skill. When you have seen enough situations you tend to rely on your previous experience in making future decisions. This can still go sideways, but it is best to not repeat your mistakes and try an alternate way.
4. People skills are also learned. It helps in figuring who you can rely on and how to get the most out of people. This skill can go a long way but it can also go wrong.
5. Depending on the type of business you are in, there might very specific ideas in how to go about doing things.
6. There are always unethical or immoral ways to get what you want. Depending on how desperately you want them or how ease are you at with negative plans of action, you can get things done.
7. Beyond these basic skills, you have to rely on luck. Unexpected things can happen even though you had made the best decision. Your unethical path may backfire and hurt you more severely than you would have expected to profit. Decisions can seem good or bad in hindsight, but in that moment you had to work with the information you had. So keep your eyes and ears open to extract the maximum information from people and circumstances, make the best decision with what you know, and pray for the rest.

Gym/Fitness.

The only scenario in this little blog where luck does not play a role in the future.

1. Learn the best exercise, hire a good coach, stick to the form are all generic advices you have already heard.
2. Understand how your body works. This is the luck coming in. Some have a faster metabolism, others have high natural testosterone, and other genetic abnormalities. Even your height is a factor in how quickly you might be able to put on muscle.
3. Consistency is really the key here. Every goal you have can be achieved with long term commitment and consistency. Life (or Luck) does not let you be consistent but you can try your best.
4. Managing your diet and habits besides the gym can really affect your overall health and physique. Good habits that are easy to recreate and stick to are what will help you. Drinking, smoking, drugs affect you, your brain and other organs in ways you try not to think about. But the effect always exists.

A lot of the ideas evolve around how luck is the main factor of success.

So would you give everything up and make rash decisions because it all relies on being lucky?

No.

Luck is not the only factor. When you make bad decisions, the best thing that can happen is you lose nothing. The worst can have consequences that destroy your life (and that of others around you).

So would you give on learning new things and make good decisions because skills are secondary?

No.

Sure luck is a factor but learning skills can help you make better decisions. Being in a room and feeling uncomfortable is a good sign you need you leave. Bad vibes from a person means you should probably keep your distance. Learning to read your inner signals and the ones that other people give off can be really helpful.

In a similar way all skills that lead to a better understanding of a situation can help you make better decisions.

So why think about luck at all?

When you feel like you have done everything right but you still do not have what you wanted, maybe you were never meant to have it. You cannot always force things in life. Some things are better not had, like the bird that wants to roam the world is best to not be caught by anyone.

Look around, do not beat yourself up on failure. Learn from it and try again until you are doing better or getting lucky.

See you tomorrow.