What is luck?

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Yesterday was a pretty lucky day, driving back from my mom's after cleaning the garage and helping her with a tag sale, I was doing 85 in the Cayenne with uhaul trailer in tow (full of junk) when I look behind me and see a state trooper. I signal and merge into the center lane, coasting down to 80, trooper just passes me.

50 miles later I passed a parked trooper that no one had reported to Waze yet at 83.

Also turned in trailer 20+ minutes passed 24 hours, only charged for one day, but that's not really luck. Uhaul is pretty cool about stuff like that. Still nice.

Good day with my mom, good day driving home.

[sc_rufctr]

"Ways to get lucky:

Hope luck finds you.

Hustle until you stumble into it.

Prepare the mind and be sensitive to chances others miss.

Become the best at what you do. Refine what you do until this is true. Opportunity will seek you out. Luck becomes your destiny."

@naval

https://x.com/NavalismHQ/status/1971665578411597879

[BK911]

Originally Posted by Shaun @ Tru6

What is luck?

Interesting question.
Some believe, me included, that energy manifests.
So people with bad attitudes attract bad luck, or negative energy.
People with good attitudes attract positive energy.
It goes a LOT deeper than that of course, but luck is not random.

And it involves energy frequency and vibration, of course.
Those with positive vibes can sense other things with positive vibes; people, things, even choices and consequences.
Once you are "in tune" you can "follow your heart" and surround yourself with positive energy.
The more positive energy surrounding you, the higher you vibrate.
The higher you vibrate, the more positive energy surrounds you.
Exponentially.
Yeah.
Crazy, ehh?

Your pine cone has crystals in and on it.
Crystals are piezoelectric, meaning they produce electricity when compressed.
These crystals can sense surrounding vibrations and send electrical pulses through your body.
Some are positive pulses and some are negative pulses.
If you learn how to sense these pulses you will have jedi luck.

Everything is atoms, which vibrate.
So everything vibrates.
Everything sends a signal.
We need to learn how to read it.

Supposedly, this was the forbidden fruit (toroid) given to Eve.
This is the divine knowledge.
Yeah.
Crazy, ehh?

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by LWJ

Well heck.



Yeah. I'm lucky.

Great post.

My Son got married yesterday, I just got back. My wife and I took separate cars because of logistical needs of folks flying in, wedding preps, etc. in West Virginia, very close to Pittsburgh. She'll be home a a few hours.

She took our daughter and her fiance to the airport in Pittsburgh.

Amazing experience, so wonderfully done between families that knew what we were seeing: A union of equals, of peers, a melding of talent and love.

That said, my son wanted a commission as an Army Officer and went to VMI on an ROTC scholarship to attain that goal. His aims post commissioning were to go do things I could not imagine trying.

Lost his left eye to injury, lost his commission. He never complained.

Bad luck? If there is good luck, most assuredly there is bad luck: Yang and Yin so to speak. Could have been, but...

His grades at VMI were great (the preparation part of luck) and he went to law school post injury and graduation from VMI and went to work...where he met his now wife: From the end of a dream to the start and husbanding of a new one.

To me, "luck", both kinds, are tests of humility, we learn from both if we are honest with ourselves.

[Shaun @ Tru6]

I’ve posted about this before but I have always been lucky finding 911s. One example is a 73T that was on Craig’s List for two months for very reasonable money. I kept wondering why it hadn't sold especially seeing that it had been special ordered with ‘67 sport seats. I finally emailed, they said it runs fine but there's something wrong with the motor, it bogs down. It had Zenith carbs so I thought that was an easy fix. Went out to see it, not much rust but some ugly welds underneath. Great interior. Bad black respray over Gemini Blue.

Owner was nice, said a lot of people had seen the car but mostly low-balled him which I thought was strange since it was worth the asking price all day long.

Owner gave me the key, it started right up, I put it in first, it bogged down and not 2 seconds later he came running over yelling to turn it off. Did that, got out, there was a huge puddle of gas under the motor and in the most nonchalant way, I told him I’d give him half his asking price. He happily agreed. I took the Ducati home and got a trailer.

Getting it to my shop, $5 worth of fuel line fixed the fuel system. I said to myself when I originally started and shifted into "first" how sloppy it was, so I pulled off the shift coupler cover plate and found the coupler completely disintegrate. It was dust in the floor pan. Going into first it was actually going into 3rd, hence the bogging. Put in new brass bushing and it became a great little car. I later put a 3.2 into it and lightened it down to 2174 lbs making it insanely fun to drive.

I have a lot of other stories like a $2K “parts” car that the owner thought he had fleeced me on but it had about $20K of rare parts on it. Sold the tail for $3500 alone. Well over $30K in parting it out.

Very lucky with 911s.

[BK911]

Originally Posted by BK911

Interesting question.
Some believe, me included, that energy manifests.
So people with bad attitudes attract bad luck, or negative energy.
People with good attitudes attract positive energy.
It goes a LOT deeper than that of course, but luck is not random.

And it involves energy frequency and vibration, of course.
Those with positive vibes can sense other things with positive vibes; people, things, even choices and consequences.
Once you are "in tune" you can "follow your heart" and surround yourself with positive energy.
The more positive energy surrounding you, the higher you vibrate.
The higher you vibrate, the more positive energy surrounds you.
Exponentially.
Yeah.
Crazy, ehh?

Your pine cone has crystals in and on it.
Crystals are piezoelectric, meaning they produce electricity when compressed.
These crystals can sense surrounding vibrations and send electrical pulses through your body.
Some are positive pulses and some are negative pulses.
If you learn how to sense these pulses you will have jedi luck.

Everything is atoms, which vibrate.
So everything vibrates.
Everything sends a signal.
We need to learn how to read it.

Supposedly, this was the forbidden fruit (toroid) given to Eve.
This is the divine knowledge.
Yeah.
Crazy, ehh?

Wow.
That's deep.
But, what if...

Your pine cone not only receives, but also transmits vibrations to the multiverse, which shapes your "reality".
So you make your own luck.
Oh shoot that's deep(er).

[oldE]

Luck?
This morning when my wife went out with the puppy she was met at the door step by the young donkey. Apparently she was trying to let us know there was a fault in the electric fence. Why do I call that lucky? Because we have in the past had equines who would (and did) end up on the road. That would not have been so good, a black donkey on the road at 0 dark 600.
I took the opportunity to mend the faults.

[NY65912]

I feel I'm the luckiest guy I know. I should have been killed a few times. Driving with a friend who fell asleep at the wheel, driving with a friend who was DWi and just missed hitting a stopped highway maintenance truck in the left lane of the BQE at 4am when I had just suggested to him to move over. Missed an outside construction elevator accident where 2 guys got killed, I just missed it going up, got broadsided by Mack truck a around 35 mph, was knocked out for 10 min but no damage. Lucky at work, became a partner and also got a nice payout after an rear end accident that required surgery. Dodged a pulmonary embolism after lumbar surgery. Hopefully I will dodge another bullet since they found renal tumor and something in my pancreas. I still consider myself lucky.

[ted]

I believe in some luck and Karma.

The Watts link broke on my race car coming down the corkscrew.
1. Is that unlucky?

I saw tire smoke in the car so at the last second swerved into the pits to have a look.
2. Lucky or experience to detect and and exit the track immediately?

Definitely Lucky the broke Watts link did not cause the car to go off track.
3. Very lucky to have friends that helped fix it so we made the race.

[ted]

My mom had long term health care insurance that paid for 2 years of skilled nursing care.
I mentioned that to my new MIL.

Unknown to me my MIL bought a great long term health care insurance policy after our discussion.
20 years later Mil suffered from Alzheimer's and required 10 years of care in a memory care unit.
That was about $100k a year for 10 years and her insurance paid for all of it.

Saved all of us big $ and protected her assets.

I feel lucky I had a random phone call with her and shared my moms story with her.

[jyl]

In Larry Nivens’ book “Ringworld”, humanity has for centuries had a lottery for the right to bear more children. Sometimes persons who were lucky enough to be born via the lottery will meet, and their child will be lucky enough to be born, and that child meets another similarly lucky child, and their child is in turn lucky, and meets . . . inadvertently, humanity breeds a population of genetically lucky persons.