How to Build “Luck” into Your Calendar
The science of showing up in the right rooms.
Let’s get this out of the way: “luck” isn’t pixie dust. It’s math.
Every so-called “lucky” break you see was quietly compounded by tiny, boring, calendar-blocked moves. Luck isn’t pure magic. It’s the residue of exposure, strategy, and (yes) a little randomness—if you let yourself be in enough rooms.
Here’s the cheat code:
Luck = Exposure x Action
There’s this idea called “Luck Surface Area”. More people, more attempts, more invitations, more chances you’ll collide with something good. Big, wild opportunities rarely knock on the door—they barge through windows when you’re busy helping someone else at 7am.
The right rooms are unpredictable.
Your odds of collision go up the more rooms, events, WhatsApp groups, Discords, parties, workshops, masterminds—literal or virtual—you show up in.
The only “luck” you can actually control is the amount of surface area you create.
Mindset Is the Magnet
“The world opens up for those looking to spot it,” says almost every true story of wild serendipity.
What does this look like?
Show up curious, not desperate.
Ask questions, not for jobs or clients, but because someone else’s story might be your shortcut.
The most valuable introductions come from the most random connections—one off-beat answer in an online forum beats ten planned coffee meetings.
Place Bets: Calendar Edition
Pick one day a week. Label it “Luck Day.” Seriously—schedule it.
Say yes to an event you’d usually scroll past.
DM someone who builds what inspires you—zero agenda.
Walk into a room where you’re the least experienced person there.
Repeat and let compounding kick in.
Right Room, Right Time, IRL
Serial entrepreneur Jeff Wald famously landed his “impossible” investor, not at a pitch meeting—but chatting casually at a breakfast event he wasn’t planning to attend:
When people asked how I got that deal, they assumed it was luck. It was: the luck of being in the right place, but only because I’d made a rule to show up. I put ‘wild card breakfast’ on my calendar twice a month—and that one move changed the rest of my year.
Luck, Engineered
Luck = Exposure x Action.
Expand your surface area: events, conversations, rooms (even awkward ones).
Don’t schedule outcomes, schedule collisions.
Use a Luck Day to force serendipity onto the calendar.
Luck isn’t magic—it’s math (multiplied by showing up).
If you want lightning to strike, build taller lightning rods. “Right room, right time” isn’t fate. It’s the outcome of enough strategic, slightly uncomfortable calendar moves—made over, and over, and over.
Try it this week. Bet once on being in the “wrong” room. You never know who’ll notice.