Devil's advocate: everyone preaching about increasing your luck stumbled into a bit of luck initially, which forever changed their path. If you don't get that initial lucky break you're wasting your time.
doing things * telling people = 0 if you have no people to tell, and is still practically 0 unless you happen to tell the right people.
It's very likely that "doing things and telling people" will never produce any results unless you're well positioned, either by circumstance, happenstance or on purpose.
The people who are obviously the "right" people are generally the hardest to attract attention from, because they're busy and likely bombarded with similarly requests.
doing things * telling people = 0 if you have no people to tell, and is still practically 0 unless you happen to tell the right people.
It's very likely that "doing things and telling people" will never produce any results unless you're well positioned, either by circumstance, happenstance or on purpose.