Get Lucky Every Time

It is good to be lucky but it is better to be good.

Luck implies randomness and the best among us design their world to build patterns and reduce unpredictability. Those that are good, embrace luck when it occurs but have skills that create repeatable situations. They don’t live in the hazard of the situation because they have repeatable skills that work in the moment, every time.

Is it luck that to never walk to the rear of the helicopter even when it is shut down? They don’t get hit, not because they are lucky, but because they have created repeatable actions that keep them safe and efficient.

Success is fundamentally unstable and remains so because of the dynamic nature of change, instability, and flexibility. It takes work to be safe. You have to design your world without relying on luck, creating patterns of behaviour that make us lucky.

In Search of the Perfect Crew.