Luck should be acknowledged without being appointed manager of the next decision.

Recognising luck is honest; letting it run your next choice is not. A run of good fortune tempts you to raise the stakes as though the world owes you a continuation, and a run of bad fortune tempts you to withdraw from things that were never the problem. Neither pattern comes from evidence, both come from the story you built out of noise.

Before your next significant decision, ask whether the size of it would look sensible to someone who knew nothing about how your recent months went.