Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca was a Roman statesman and Stoic philosopher who believed that most of what we call luck is earned through habit. To him, fortune favors the prepared because preparation sharpens perception—you notice opportunity when others miss it.

He wasn’t dismissing luck entirely, but he refused to let it take credit for effort. The disciplined mind treats every challenge as training. Then, when the right moment comes, it’s not luck at all—it’s readiness meeting timing.

If an opportunity arrived tomorrow, what skill, habit, or mindset would you wish you’d already built?