Rules of Randomness

99u.com's article The Rules of Randomness and How You Can Stand Apart is a nice piece that reminds readers to embrace diversity in their lives and to keep trying - over and over. Frans Johansson talks about the "click moment" where everything just suddenly works out or seemingly becomes an overnight success. Johansson explains that life is unpredictable and that hard work and planning alone doesn't equal success. A random chance does.

So how to increase random awesome clicky-ness? Diversity. Being open to different people, paths, books, and hard work.Taking many different chances instead of laboriously betting on the same chance as everyone else. The last important step to awesome randomness -- repeated failure and persistence. After all, Johansson tells us that the makers of Angry Birds had over 50 games that no one cared about until they 'randomly' hit it big with a game about barnyard civil war.