“Louis Pasteur, the French biologist, microbiologist—all-around genius—once said that ‘Chance favors the prepared mind.’ I kept thinking about this last night, and I realized that he’s saying if we cover all our bases—plan for the worst and the best—then chance will be on our side. And I think most people, to some extent, already do some variation of that in their day-to-day lives. But you’ve had so many bad things happen that you’ve stopped preparing for the best, and subconsciously, you’re only preparing for the worst, so the negative outcomes continue,
