{"id":470,"date":"2016-04-01T13:16:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T11:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/?p=470"},"modified":"2016-04-01T13:16:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T11:16:32","slug":"prepared-for-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/prepared-for-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you prepared for luck?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u00a0&#8220;Luck\u00a0is when opportunity\u00a0meets preparation.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>-Robert Evans<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many great opportunities, if you manage to\u00a0seize them, will look like luck to an outsider. But the open mind and preparation that are\u00a0needed in order to grab the opportunity are\u00a0rarely\u00a0acknowledged\u00a0by anyone except you.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you prepare to get lucky? In a world that is always in flux, it is very difficult to plan ahead and cover all your bases. Instead, focus on putting yourself at intersections of people and ideas, making your <a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Bu9SbFn5ymw\/ULLchaS39tI\/AAAAAAAAAUM\/thr9Dqu2thM\/s640\/Rigid+Thinking+2.png\">thinking flexible<\/a>\u00a0and having a clear sense of the general direction you want to go in.<\/p>\n<p>The first step determines your &#8216;opportunity flow&#8217;. The second let&#8217;s you recognize opportunities when they appear.\u00a0The third step helps you\u00a0to separate relevant opportunities from everything else, the signal from all the noise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0&#8220;Luck\u00a0is when opportunity\u00a0meets preparation.&#8221; -Robert Evans Many great opportunities, if you manage to\u00a0seize them, will look like luck to an outsider. But the open mind and preparation that are\u00a0needed in order to grab the opportunity are\u00a0rarely\u00a0acknowledged\u00a0by anyone except you. So how do you prepare to get lucky? In a world that is always in flux,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nickdorra.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}