It is amazing how many beginners are lucky.

If you’ve wondered why that is, perhaps it is because beginners are not really lucky.

They are fearless.

The more we fear failure, the more we fear what it takes to be successful.

When we start something new – such as a new job, a new hobby, or a new interest, our best days are usually in the beginning before we hear the negative attitudes of others, or even worse – the repetitive words of constraint.

What can’t be done. 

What’s too expensive to consider. 

What someone else might not want.

You could say Mark Zuckerberg had beginner’s luck when he invented Facebook in college.  

But it was no accident. 

It was a lack of fear.

So beginner’s luck is a misnomer.  It should really be called beginner’s fearlessness.

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few” – Shunryu Suzuki

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