Comments on: How Social Engagement on the Net Is Like the Nature of Luck http://sharisax.com/2010/03/20/how-social-engagement-on-the-net-is-like-the-nature-of-luck/ Join me on a journey down the Social Media Revolutionary Road Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:23:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Shari Weiss http://sharisax.com/2010/03/20/how-social-engagement-on-the-net-is-like-the-nature-of-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-2461 Shari Weiss Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:58:46 +0000 http://sharisax.com/?p=5400#comment-2461 Ransom . . . one of the lucky things that happened to me that week was making the decision to come to the meeting, not having known about you before. HMMM . . . definitely says something about "making your own luck," right? Ransom . . . one of the lucky things that happened to me that week was making the decision to come to the meeting, not having known about you before.

HMMM . . . definitely says something about “making your own luck,” right?

]]> By: Ransom Stephens http://sharisax.com/2010/03/20/how-social-engagement-on-the-net-is-like-the-nature-of-luck/comment-page-1/#comment-2460 Ransom Stephens Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:56:24 +0000 http://sharisax.com/?p=5400#comment-2460 I love it when I give a speech and someone totally gets it! For me, the coolest thing about thinking of luck as a random process (i.e., that the distribution of fortunate occurrences for each person on earth follows a normal distribution, or bell curve) is that there really is a luckiest person on earth, but since it's random, it will all change ... right now! In my book, The God Patent, Ryan McNear pushes hard to turn his luck around, to find paradise after years of bad choices, but like Shari said, "Paradise is easier to find than it is to recognize." I love it when I give a speech and someone totally gets it! For me, the coolest thing about thinking of luck as a random process (i.e., that the distribution of fortunate occurrences for each person on earth follows a normal distribution, or bell curve) is that there really is a luckiest person on earth, but since it’s random, it will all change … right now! In my book, The God Patent, Ryan McNear pushes hard to turn his luck around, to find paradise after years of bad choices, but like Shari said, “Paradise is easier to find than it is to recognize.”

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