A talk at my alma mater for students about to start their careers. I built it around Seneca’s definition of luck: “Luck is what happens when opportunity meets preparation.”
The first half was about creating opportunities: building a network by helping people with their goals, pushing yourself out of the comfort zone, staying open to change, and giving back. The second half was about being prepared to take them, through discipline with time, hard work and skills, and then about being selective with what you take on and being known for something.
I wrote the talk up afterwards as Be lucky; always!.