If we succeed in recalling a formerly solved problem which is closely related to our present problem, we are lucky. We should try to deserve such luck; we may deserve it by exploiting it.
-George Polya, How to Solve It.
I love the inversion. You can deserve your luck post hoc, not just a priori.
“Deserve your luck by exploiting it.”
Inspired from:
-George Polya, How to Solve It.
I love the inversion. You can deserve your luck post hoc, not just a priori.
Which goes back to the phrases “luck is 99% preparation/perspiration”.