There’s “regular luck” and “earned luck.”
When a stranger dies and leaves you $10,000,000, that’s regular luck. Undeserved, unearned, a bolt out of the blue. Someone is going to win the lottery and it might be you.
The other sort of luck happens after a lot of focus and effort.
This is the third novel that becomes a bestseller, or the hard work that turns into a promotion to VP of sales.
It’s easy to imagine that earned luck is well deserved, because it is. But quite often, earned luck, while earned, doesn’t arrive.
Acknowledging the boost from our good luck doesn’t diminish the hard work we put into the project. In fact, it celebrates it.
It’s hard work to stick around long enough to get lucky.