<p>Welcome to another Nugget of Wisdom! A free weekly post I send out every Thursday. These are designed to be short and sweet, a quick read to (hopefully) impart some sort of wisdom, or at the very least to get you thinking about something interesting.</p><p><a href="https://www.zeneca.xyz/subscribe?" rel="nofollow"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><blockquote><h3><strong>This post is sponsored by GBM Auctions</strong></h3><div><figure><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/%24s_!kVyn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3101db36-6393-432a-a54a-63a64a953620_1320x800.jpeg" rel="nofollow"><div><picture><source><img src="https://static.fwimg.io/img/feed/81a35298910e5c5e9dc2b523f93d0c3b.jpg" alt="" title=""></source></picture><div><div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>GBM Auctions are reinventing auctions with a powerful twist: bidders get paid if they’re outbid. This “Win-Win” mechanic drives greater engagement, true price discovery, and creates aligned incentives for bidders, winners, and sellers alike.</p><p>Everything runs fully onchain, with a trustless and transparent system. GBM has already seen $200M+ in bidding volume and $6M+ earned by bidders - and now, they’re launching a multi-chain protocol powered by the upcoming $GBM token.</p><p>The token will be distributed via airdrops, community programs, and the upcoming IDA (Initial Distribution Auction) - plus ongoing rewards through the GBM Auction Festival.</p><p>👉 <a href="https://bit.ly/4luroDj" rel="nofollow">Check out the GBM website to learn more</a> </p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h2><strong>Increasing the surface area of your luck</strong></h2><p>I’ve found that luck is one of the most misunderstood concepts in the world. At first glance it’s such a simple thing: you either get lucky, or or you don’t. You can have good luck or bad luck. You’re a lucky person or you’re an unlucky person. Most people feel that luck is out of your control. You roll the dice, place your bets, and then let the gods of fate decide what happens.</p><p>And that’s obviously true to an extent. You <em>can’t</em> control what happens once something leaves your control (or was never in your control to begin with). You <em>can’t</em> know whether a token price will go up or down, whether a lottery ticket will win, whether a sports team will cover the spread, whether the fed will lower rates in 3 months, and so on. You can make educated guesses — but you can never know. But that doesn’t mean you can’t influence your luck at all.</p><p>One of my favourite articles of all time is <a href="https://sahilbloom.substack.com/p/how-to-get-lucky" rel="nofollow">How To Get Lucky</a> by Sahil Bloom. In it he talks about the concept of your luck surface area, and how by taking certain actions, you can almost always become a “luckier” person. </p><p>The term was actually coined by <a href="https://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/increasing-your-luck-surface-area" rel="nofollow">Jason Roberts</a> though, and the idea is simple:</p><blockquote><p><em>The amount of serendipity that will occur in your life, your Luck Surface Area, is directly proportional to the degree to which you do something you're passionate about combined with the total number of people to whom this is effectively communicated</em></p></blockquote><p>In other words: more exposure and more signal = more chances for serendipity to find you.</p><p>Or as my favourite philosopher pal namesake says:</p><div><figure><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/%24s_!KHGh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe1f3a64d-3124-4c76-b80e-bac53de46838_950x500.jpeg" rel="nofollow"><div><picture><source><img src="https://static.fwimg.io/img/feed/6ad9818dd9044e8adf163d1bb3f481f3.jpg" alt="Anil Yadagiry on “Luck and Opportunities” - The SmarTalks Show" title="Anil Yadagiry on “Luck and Opportunities” - The SmarTalks Show"></source></picture><div><div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>If you sit at home in your room all day, watching netflix, playing video games, and eating junk — you’re probably not gonna get lucky very often (pun slightly intended).</p><p>On the other hand, if you’re spending your time learning new skills, expanding your network, talking to others, exercising, getting out of the house, thinking about ways to make money, to grow, to improve, and putting yourself out there… sure there’s no guarantee of any luck, but boy golly, the chances someone is randomly going to offer you a job, ask you out on a date, or invite you to a valuable group chat is a hell of a lot higher than if you were that other person!</p><p>To put a crypto spin on it: if you spend your time trying new protocols, learning about the technology, discussing it with others on the timeline, using testnets, spending real money, and so on… you might get lucky with an airdrop! Maybe some totally unexpected, random, out-of-the-blue thing too that nobody was farming. </p><p>And people will go: “<em>oh man, look how lucky those people are! I wish I got lucky like that sometimes!</em>”, and then they’ll go back playing their video games and complaining a bit more about life. </p><p>If you want to be luckier, try putting yourself in more situations where luck can find you. It’s not gonna find you sitting at home, isolated, keeping to yourself, doing the exact same stuff you’ve been doing for years. Put yourself out there, work hard, stay curious and open minded, and you’ll be amazed at how often the gods of fate smile fondly upon you.</p><p><strong>It really is actually astonishing how many ridiculously hardworking, passionate, dedicated, disciplined, and driven people all end up being lucky too!</strong></p><p><em>NB: I know that there are whole swaths of luck that I didn’t cover today, including the luck that is literally 100% out of any of our individual control, such as the luck of being born in a certain country, being born to loving or abusive parents, the luck of being born with all your limbs, your faculties. The luck of being born in the 21st century or the 11th century. There are infinite levels to luck but it all really boils down to luck that is within your control (what I wrote about today), and luck which is not within your control (not worth spending any time worrying about, since you can’t do anything about it).</em></p><p><em>At the end of the day, we are all <strong>incalculably </strong>lucky to be alive. To have been born in the first place. To exist in this tiny sliver of a fraction of a fragment of a moment of time in this microscopic corner of the universe. There’s about 800 billion zillion trillion gajillion squillion katillion possible scenarios in which you never exist; in which I never exist. So we might as well be grateful and happy and consider ourselves lucky to be alive, to be here, and to exist. </em></p><p><em>And focus on the type of luck we can actually do something about.</em></p><blockquote><p><strong>Thanks for reading! In case you missed it, check out Monday’s post below 👇</strong></p><div></div></blockquote>

Weekly Nugget of Wisdom #17

<p>또 다른 지혜의 조각에 오신 것을 환영합니다! 매주 목요일마다 보내는 무료 주간 포스트입니다. 이 포스트들은 짧고 간결하게 설계되어 어떤 종류의 지혜를 전달하거나 최소한 흥미로운 무언가에 대해 생각하게 만들기 위한 것입니다.</p><p><a href="https://www.zeneca.xyz/subscribe?" rel="nofollow"><span>지금 구독하기</span></a></p><blockquote><h3><strong>이 포스트는 GBM 경매소가 후원합니다</strong></h3><div><figure><a href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/%24s_!kVyn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3101db36-6393-432a-a54a-63a64a953620_1320x800.jpeg" rel="nofollow"><div><picture><source><img src="https://static.fwimg.io/img/feed/81a35298910e5c5e9dc2b523f93d0c3b.jpg" alt="" title=""></source></picture><div><div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>GBM 경매소는 강력한 트위스트와 함께 경매를 재창조하고 있습니다: 입찰자들은 자신이 입찰에서 밀려날 경우 보상을 받습니다. 이 '윈-윈' 메커니즘은 더 큰 참여도, 진정한 가격 발견, 그리고 입찰자, 낙찰자, 판매자 모두에게 일치된 인센티브를 만들어냅니다.</p><p>모든 것이 완전히 온체인에서 실행되며, 무신뢰성이고 투명한 시스템입니다. GBM은 이미 2억 달러 이상의 입찰 볼륨과 600만 달러 이상을 입찰자들에게 지급했으며, 이제 곧 출시될 $GBM 토큰으로 구동되는 멀티 체인 프로토콜을 출시하고 있습니다.</p><p>토큰은 에어드랍, 커뮤니티 프로그램, 곧 있을 IDA(초기 분배 경매)를 통해 배포되며, GBM 경매 페스티벌을 통해 지속적인 보상이 제공됩니다.</p><p>👉 <a href="https://bit.ly/4luroDj" rel="nofollow">더 자세히 알아보려면 GBM 웹사이트를 확인하세요</a> </p></blockquote><div><hr></div><h2><strong>당신의 운의 표면적 넓히기</strong></h2><p>운은 세상에서 가장 오해받는 개념 중 하나라는 것을 알게 되었습니다. 처음에는 매우 간단한 것처럼 보입니다: 운이 좋거나 나쁘거나, 운이 좋은 사람이거나 나쁜 사람입니다. 대부분의 사람들은 운은 통제할 수 없다고 느낍니다. 주사위를 굴리고, 내기를 걸고, 그리고 운명의 신들이 무슨 일이 일어날지 결정하도록 내버려 둡니다.</p><p>물론 어느 정도는 사실입니다. 통제에서 벗어난 것(또는 애초에 통제할 수 없었던 것)에 대해서는 통제할 수 없습니다. 토큰 가격이 오르거나 내리거나, 복권 티켓에 당첨되거나, 스포츠 팀이 스프레드를 커버하거나, 연방준비제도가 3개월 후에 금리를 낮출지 알 수 없습니다. 현명한 추측은 할 수 있지만 절대 알 수는 없습니다. 하지만 그렇다고 운을 전혀 바꿀 수 없다는 뜻은 아닙니다.</p>

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주간 지혜의 조각 #17

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