There’s been buzzing in the air lately about success and the role luck plays in it. It seems like everyone wants to attribute their achievements solely to the elusive hand of fate.

I’m gonna give you the hard, bubble-bursting truth.

It's not just luck that got you here; it's preparation.

If we stop thinking about those four letter words as bad things and we actually welcome the spectacular possibility of failure, the combustion, the oops, we can instead focus on the happy accidents we cause.