We know these clusters of unlucky events simply happen…

We know these clusters of unlucky events simply happen at random. Just by under-standing this, we can significantly toughen ourselves against such misfortunes.

— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Practical Uncertainty: Useful Ideas in Decision-Making, Risk, Randomness, and AI by Hossei

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A great deal of what feels like a personal curse is simply the arithmetic of randomness. Clusters of unlucky events happen by pure chance, and merely understanding that toughens you against them. We are forever inventing a "balancing force of the universe" — the gambler's certainty that a run of bad luck must now be due to turn — but with independent events there is no such force; the coin does not remember how it last landed. — Takeoff Into Chaos

Stock your kit, too, with the habits the resilient rely on. When a string of misfortunes hits, remember that such clusters of bad luck do happen at random — and simply understanding that toughens you against them. Build, into your very plans, an expectation of adversity, so your life is a system that can fail gracefully without bringing everything else down with it; this is the shift from wish-based optimism to reality-based hope. — Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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