Case Kenny
Appearances
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
How to Stay Motivated and Avoid Burnout as a Content Creator | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
I like the idea of luck is faith. And I like the idea of luck and faith and patience being intertwined, right? Like when you give yourself patience, that is saying I have faith in myself, right? When you're saying, I don't need to rush to do this. I don't need to conform to someone else's timeline. I just need to keep doing what I'm doing. That is faith in yourself. And that is what creates luck.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
How to Stay Motivated and Avoid Burnout as a Content Creator | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
There's a book that I referenced quite a bit that has been passed around a little bit about that talks about luck. I'm blanking on the author of it, but it's called Chase Chance and Creativity, the Lucky Art of Novelty. And it's basically written by this scientist professor who was talking about the role that luck has played in some great scientific breakthroughs, right?
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
How to Stay Motivated and Avoid Burnout as a Content Creator | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
Specifically luck in the lab, like the invention of pasteurization and Louis Pasteur and the invention of penicillin. Like these were like technically like mistakes that were made in the lab when they just like
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
How to Stay Motivated and Avoid Burnout as a Content Creator | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
randomly did things not a scientist don't know the exact but like they randomly mix things together and something great happened right it was luck it wasn't part of the plan it was luck and basically the scientist looked uh over the years over the many decades and centuries of luck in the lab and he said luck is actually uh categorizable it's something we could break down and it's something we can't control and he said there's four kinds of luck
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
How to Stay Motivated and Avoid Burnout as a Content Creator | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
And one luck is the kind of luck that I think we're all so apt to identify by. And for me, I used to think, well, I'm an unlucky person, right? I've never won a lottery. I always hit red lights. Like if something bad can happen, it tends to happen to me. That's the kind of luck that we need to ignore. That's random luck. Like we don't really care about random luck. We can't control it.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
How to Stay Motivated and Avoid Burnout as a Content Creator | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
It is what it is. But there's three other kinds of luck that he identified in the lab that I think is very immediately transferable to life. The first was luck that comes from experience and association. Basically, the more you do something, the wiser you get about it such that in the future, you make better decisions.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
How to Stay Motivated and Avoid Burnout as a Content Creator | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
You're able to quickly form more mental associations of if this, then that, and you just have better results. It's luck that comes from wisdom, right? So for me, it's like with writing quotes, I've written, I don't know, a thousand on Instagram. I kind of know what people want. I know what makes people feel seen. So people like I posted something yesterday. Today, it's got like 90,000 likes.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
How to Stay Motivated and Avoid Burnout as a Content Creator | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
That's a lot of likes. I was a little bit lucky. The algorithm lucked me today. Well, kind of. It was just a little bit of association. So that was luck one. The other luck was luck that comes from motion. Can't deny that, right? The more you do, the luckier you get. Objects in motion stay in motion. Objects in motion bump into other objects in motion.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
How to Stay Motivated and Avoid Burnout as a Content Creator | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
The more you do, the more podcasts you release, the more music you release, the more cold calls you make, literally the luckier you get. People, for some reason, we conflate luck with being irregardless of effort, but luck is truly effort. And then the last luck that he broke down was luck that comes from, like, uniqueness, originality, authenticity.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
How to Stay Motivated and Avoid Burnout as a Content Creator | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
Just the fact that the more real you are, the luckier you get in the sense that people can detect that. Like, some of the examples were, like... You know, if you have blue hair, right, and that's like authentic to you and your expression, it strikes up a conversation with someone. Oh, and they're an editor for Vogue and you want to be a fashion model.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
How to Stay Motivated and Avoid Burnout as a Content Creator | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
Like things like that, luck that comes from originality and authenticity that in very practical ways, whether it's a conversation in an elevator or something you post that shines through, it attracts the right people and you get lucky. But it comes from that level of realness. So, yeah, I like thinking about luck in that sense because I used to really victimize myself as an unlucky person.
Young and Profiting (YAP) with Hala Taha
How to Stay Motivated and Avoid Burnout as a Content Creator | Presented by OpusClip | YAPCreator
And, of course, that's not true. And that's unfair. Back to the idea of that's bold of you and vulnerability. It's an unfair thing to say I'm an unlucky person. You could break yourself free of being unlucky by being real, by leaning on your past for those associations, and then for doing more, of course.