One key to effective negotiation is to have multiple options and be OK with it not working out. Even if you really need the thing, it’s never your only choice: reframe and create alternative options until you have multiple outcomes you’re ok with. (See BATNA.)

Luck isn’t a constant, it increases with surface area: be in the right places, have lots of conversations, put yourself out there, ask for what you want and be optimistic and positive. See #52.

The most valuable feedback usually hurts a lot.

If you want to think originally and differently, seek uncorrelated inputs. Read minor works, older things, obscure journals.