To look at a guy like Woody Allen, you’d never think he had a chance at being a household name and a famous comedy star. I mean, let’s be honest he’s a bit odd looking, has a very peculiar manner and if you met him on the street you’d think he was just an amusing eccentric. When he was asked some years ago how he came to success, his reply was that "80 percent of success is just showing up". Early in his career with nothing happening, he just used to go to every single audition, party, event, opening, anything that was going on.
People like to talk about luck being a factor in success, and you could say that eventually that’s exactly what happened, Allen got lucky. But of course the message in this story is not that he got lucky, but that he set it up so that he could get lucky.
