While skill, motivation, and some money are essential for starting up any new business, the part that luck plays is often vastly underestimated, writes Paul Graham.
Actually the best model would be to say that the outcome is the product of skill, determination, and luck. No matter how much skill and determination you have, if [...]

Stepping out of your comfort zone is one way to improve your luck because there lie the opportunities you wouldn’t otherwise encounter:
Unlucky people tend to be creatures of routine. They tend to take the same route to and from work and talk to the same types of people at parties. In contrast, many lucky [...]

Some pretty comprehensive tips for winning Monopoly, together with some analysis of the costs of owning properties and the possible returns on said investments.
Monopoly is a game of luck, strategy, and people skills. No strategy will guarantee you a win; that’s one of the reasons Monopoly is so interesting. In any given game, a newcomer [...]

The key to being lucky seems to lie in the simple ability to spot a break, chance, or opportunity, rather than being bestowed with any sort of… superpower. Unless you consider the power of observation to be a superpower that is.
Consider chance opportunities: Lucky people regularly have them; unlucky people don’t. To determine why, I [...]

What makes some ideas stick, or work, (such as YouTube, Facebook, or even urban legends) while other, sometimes quite similar variations, fail to see the light of day?
To succeed ideas need a couple of standard ingredients, including the element of surprise, concrete imagery, and must somehow be emotive, writes Kristen Le Mesurier.
A few years ago, [...]