Using fate and irony to your advantage.

This methodology can be used to your advantage by using it as a form of risk management while navigating through life. I thought i’d explain just what that means to counter jinx yourself by twisting the power of fate and irony. This thought exploration will preset your expectations in such a way that in that off chance that something does go-wrong by design it will nonetheless be in your favor or best interest.

At its core, it’s about setting up the least likely situations to always be in your favor, what others perceive to be your worst case scenarios to actually be your best case. An example of this would be to figure out what’s the most absurd way for your plan or situation to work out and then try *not* to pursue that direction while leaving that possibility open. For example, the biggest mistake one often makes is leaving open that 0.0001% off chance where things could go terribly wrong. In my experience more often than not it ends up happening. Which isnt in our best interest and typically sucks when it does happen. Instead take that situation and flip it on its head. Make the 0.0001% case the case where everything goes terribly right. It’s like the opposite of denial; you convince yourself the most ironic way to succeed cannot happen, but you intentionally turn a blind eye to it, leave that open to let fate play its part.

Think of someone who places a bet. They’d probably feel less secure if they said the words lock, guarantee, boast about their record, or engage in that form of rhetoric that they’d be asking for it. In this situation you wouldn't say that they were unlucky if the odds weren't in their favor because in your mind they asked for it.

Instead set yourself up such that the most ironic thing that can happen to you is the best thing that could happen to you. Essentially learning to jinx the right things and not the ones from you’d least expect.

It’s like punching yourself first so that no one else can. It’s like finding the most embarrassing, stupid way to do something, such that you pay your dues in the spotlight, but behind the scenes at least you still win or make it through it.

It sounds a bit like superstitution or voodoo, but it really is more about risk management, psychology, and just staying ahead of the game. When the unthinkable happens, you win, and when it doesn’t, life just continues as usual.

What better irony than the safest plans thriving in absolute chaos?

When you declare the most absurd things with no expectation they often happen as when you jinx or counter-jinx things, when people give up at the exact moment they should have doubled down, etc. You can use this to your advantage just by changing the way you think about it.

The key again is to let the things you think are the most absurd to always be in your favor. If someone else is doubting something (often you), let them be on the losing side of the ironic outcome and not yourself.

Give it a shot, what’s the worst that could happen, you’d break a leg?