# The Concept of Lucky Is a Lie

An episode of [The Daily Mastery Podcast by Robin Sharma](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1521068608), 21 Oct 2026, 4:25.

Audio: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1182776/episodes/19978510-the-concept-of-lucky-is-a-lie.mp3

People call you lucky when they didn’t see your private winters. They missed the early mornings, the risks, the mistakes, the learning and the years of work when no one was watching. The world may call it luck. You will know it was devotion. I'm truly super excited over the upcoming release of my new book The Robot and the Gardener: Being Fully Human in an Artificial Age (Penguin Random House). It's a parable and it's different (by far!) from any book I've ever written. You can join the list here if you'd like to be among the first to receive any updates. FOLLOW ROBIN SHARMA: Instagram Facebook YouTube

## Transcript

One common myth of world-class about a world-class life, as well as world-class performance is lucky and what you often get, especially by victims, because they want to give away their power. They say, oh, that billionaire is lucky. Oh, that athlete is lucky, or that great artist is lucky. Well, lucky usually takes 20 years of work. So again victims love saying that successful, happy, healthy, influential people are lucky because it allows them to feel better. Because here's a key principle I want you to write down. Potential unexpressed turns to pain. Potential unexpressed turns to pain. So when we're born, we're born into wonder. Our eyes are sparkling. We want to be astronauts and we want to be filmmakers, and we want to be firefighters, and we want to be superheroes. And then the world numbs us. The world sells us this bill of goods that we can't be great, that we must live in a box, that we must think like everyone else and follow the herd, and that we must fit in. Livery visionary doesn't fit in. Every visionary is strange. Every visionary is weird. The very nature of creativity means you disrupt the status quo. I think of Alexander McQueen's fashion show in the late 90s, where Shalom Harlow, the supermodel, is standing in the middle of the stage, and all of a sudden these spray guns spray paint all over her dress. And it was one of the iconic moments in fashion. My point. My point is simply, no one had done anything like that. And the very nature of creativity and in, in, in and ingenuity means you need to be abnormal. You need to think very different from everyone else. So myth number one is that people who are successful and productive and happy and loving and serving the world well, they just got lucky. And that's absolutely not true. If I was to deconstruct it, they study a lot. They have great mentors. They work really, really hard. They don't have an entitlement attitude, which is, well, give it to me. A lot of people, they want to live at world class,

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