Luck has to be manufactured.

Luck is not something you find. It is something you manufacture.
People are not lucky by accident; they are lucky by design.

The comfort trap
Here is the story of Guido van Rossum, a brilliant Stanford PhD who made what seem like two catastrophic mistakes. When his friends Larry Page and Sergey Brin approached him in the late 1990s about joining their search engine project, he declined. Before that, Jerry wang had wanted him for something called Yahoo, and he said no.

He fell into the trap: the comfort of certainty. Guido had his PhD program, his security, his predictable path forward. Taking the risk meant abandoning everything he had worked for.

When you have something to lose, you stop taking the risks that create extraordinary outcomes. Your comfort zone is not protecting you; it's limiting you. Why do lucky people see what others miss? It is not that they receive more chances—it is that they are programmed to see them.

When you believe you are unlucky, your brain develops tunnel vision. You become so focused on your perceived disadvantages that you miss the fortune literally lying at your feet.
Setbacks are redirections toward something better. The cost of playing it safe is often higher than the cost of taking risks.

Risk tolerance = trading security for possibility. Opportunity recognition requires curiosity and networking. View your failure as data for your present and future.