iOS app Android app More  Austin Carty   Former Survivor
Contestant on How to Win Survivor  Posted: 09/14/11 02:52 PM ET
Six years after being on the show, I still have countless people
approach me with the question "What does it take to win
Survivor?"  In fact, because the new season's premiere is
tonight, I just had someone approach me via my blog this morning
and, amid a series of questions about the show, pose this very
one.  Whenever asked this, I can't help remembering a piece of
wisdom New York Times bestselling and Edgar-winning author John
Hart told me last year over coffee.  "It takes three things to
make a book a bestseller," John told me. "It takes a lot of
talent, an ability to harness that talent to write a great book,
and, most important, a lot of luck."  John then sipped his
coffee and said, "You've got the talent, and you've written a
hell of a book... "  "And now I just need the luck," I said.
"Now you just need the luck," John nodded.  This conversation, I
think, best answers the question