Chase, Chance, and Creativity
The Lucky Art of Novelty
A neurologist argues that chance arrives in four distinct kinds, and only one of them is genuinely beyond your influence.
Austin, a neurologist, sets out to explain why some researchers keep stumbling onto discoveries while others never do, and concludes that luck is not one thing but four. He separates blind chance from the luck that follows motion, the luck that rewards a prepared mind, and the luck that finds one particular person because of who they already are. The examples come from medicine and from his own career.
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Marc Andreessen
It’s the best book I’ve read on the role of luck, chance, and serendipity in medical research—or, for that matter, any creative endeavor.
Article · August 2007
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