People use “luck” to describe the ability to regularly have surprising and good things happen to them. If that exists, why not just use the word for it?
“Luck” is strongly associated with certain false ideas, even if it can be used in a clearer sense that doesn’t involve them. You can’t easily get rid of undesirable connotations of a word, so it’s probably easier to pick a different word.
Clearly we need a better word than luck
A prepared mind?
Make your own luck.
Opportunability
I feel like something like that ought to work, but that word is ugly.
Describe “lucky” people as “opportunistic” maybe? Opportunity-prone?
Perhaps...
“A stroke of luck” = “A surprising but useful contextual affordance”
“Lucky” = “Habitually contextually aware”
Instead of saying “Good luck!” perhaps we could say “Watch for opportunities!”
Is it clear?
People use “luck” to describe the ability to regularly have surprising and good things happen to them. If that exists, why not just use the word for it?
“Luck” is strongly associated with certain false ideas, even if it can be used in a clearer sense that doesn’t involve them. You can’t easily get rid of undesirable connotations of a word, so it’s probably easier to pick a different word.
Any suggestions? If there aren’t any good similar concepts, then staying with Luck makes sense.
“Truth” is associated with lots of false ideas, but we don’t really have better options unless we want to go into Greek or something.
The extent to which it may be so is not similar to that for “luck”.
(If you can’t find a better word, using a descriptive phrase without focusing on any single word is another obvious option.)
Using short words rather than short phrases makes a concept more salient.
All else is not equal.
It can also refer to something better than you expected happening to you due to a statistical fluctuation (e.g. winning the lottery).