Stop Trying to Get It, And You’ll Have It| The Art of Surrender

The Backwards Law: How Not Trying Can Lead to Success

Oliur Rahman
Making of a Millionaire
8 min readJan 9, 2023

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Photo by Nina Uhlikova

Have you ever heard the saying, “the harder I work, the luckier I get”?

This phrase embodies the concept of the backward law, which states that the more we try to get something, the less likely we are actually to obtain it.

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