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Stanford University educator and leadership expert Tina Seelig argues that good fortune is neither accidental nor scarce — and that highly successful people engineer it deliberately through five daily habits.
Seelig, whose work is rooted in leadership development at Stanford, frames luck not as a windfall but as a repeatable, teachable competency, a position with direct implications for how organisations and executives think about talent and competitive edge.
Luck as a Cultivable Discipline Seelig's core assertion is pointed: "Good luck isn't random or rare." Rather than attributing outsized achievement to chance, she identifies a set of behaviours that the luckiest people practise consistently.
The implication is that luck functions more like a system than a lottery — one that can be studied, codified, and replicated across individuals and institutions.
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