The Luck Factor by Professor Richard Wiseman
Many research revealed that lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles.They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities,make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good
Personality tests revealed that unlucky people are generally much more tense and anxious than lucky people, and research has shown that anxiety disrupts people’s ability to notice the unexpected.And so it is with luck unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else.Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.But new or even random experiences introduce the potential for new opportunities.
He asked lucky and unlucky people to imagine that they were waiting to be served in a bank. Suddenly, an armed robber enters the bank, fires a shot, and the bullet hits them in the arm. Would this event be lucky or unlucky? Unlucky people tended to say that this would be enormously unlucky and it would be just
their bad luck to be in the bank during the robbery. In contrast, lucky people viewed the scenario as being far luckier, and often spontaneously commented on how the situation could have been far worse. As one lucky participant commented, It’s lucky because you could have been shot in the head also,you could sell
your story to the newspapers and make some money.
Lucky people tend to imagine spontaneously how the bad luck they encounter could have been worse and, in doing so, they feel much better about themselves and their lives. This,in turn, helps keep their expectations about the future high, and, increases the likelihood of them continuing to live a lucky life.
Lucky people tend to use various techniques to create chance opportunities that surround them, how to break daily routines, and also how to deal more effectively with bad luck by imagining how things could have been worse.Much of the good and bad fortune we encounter is a result of our thoughts
and behavior
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Many research revealed that lucky people generate their own good fortune via four basic principles.They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities,make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good
Personality tests revealed that unlucky people are generally much more tense and anxious than lucky people, and research has shown that anxiety disrupts people’s ability to notice the unexpected.And so it is with luck unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else.Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.But new or even random experiences introduce the potential for new opportunities.
He asked lucky and unlucky people to imagine that they were waiting to be served in a bank. Suddenly, an armed robber enters the bank, fires a shot, and the bullet hits them in the arm. Would this event be lucky or unlucky? Unlucky people tended to say that this would be enormously unlucky and it would be just
their bad luck to be in the bank during the robbery. In contrast, lucky people viewed the scenario as being far luckier, and often spontaneously commented on how the situation could have been far worse. As one lucky participant commented, It’s lucky because you could have been shot in the head also,you could sell
your story to the newspapers and make some money.
Lucky people tend to imagine spontaneously how the bad luck they encounter could have been worse and, in doing so, they feel much better about themselves and their lives. This,in turn, helps keep their expectations about the future high, and, increases the likelihood of them continuing to live a lucky life.
Lucky people tend to use various techniques to create chance opportunities that surround them, how to break daily routines, and also how to deal more effectively with bad luck by imagining how things could have been worse.Much of the good and bad fortune we encounter is a result of our thoughts
and behavior
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