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- Richard Wiseman’s book The Luck Factor addresses four main habits of lucky people: Be open to more opportunities, interact with a large network of people, break routines and keep a relaxed attitude toward life.
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Apr 2, 2003 · A psychic gift or a question of intelligence? And what is it that lucky people have that unlucky people lack? Psychologist Dr. Richard Wiseman put luck under a scientific microscope for the very first time, examining the different ways in which lucky and unlucky people think and behave.
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- Lucky People Are Extroverts
- Lucky People Have Open, Positive Body Language
- Lucky People Say "Yes" to Risks
- Lucky People Have Positive Expectations
- Lucky People Tend to Broaden Their Focus
- Lucky People Believe They Have Good Luck
The big daddy of luck and psychology is the psychologist Richard Wiseman, who's done extensive studies on what lucky people do differently. It turns out that luck is as much a matter of mindset and openness as it is stumbling on the right thing at the right time. Psychology Today reports that some of Wiseman's findings are more about who you are as...
Wiseman's research also found that extroverts with lucky experiences tended to exhibit open, pleasurable body language when encountering others, drawing them in and making them more inclined to form a social connection or make an advantageous offer. (Open, "positive" body languagemeans relaxed, uncrossed limbs, open palms, and facing the other pers...
Lucky people also grab opportunities and say "Yes": it's now a commonplace in studies of serendipity to point out that opportunities tend to follow much more from taking risks and agreeing to unexpected proposals than from caution. Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person, $12.99, Amazon
Wiseman's research also found that positive expectation was a fundamental part of experiencing luck. In other words, people who genuinely believed that good things would happen to them tended to encounter more good fortune. This sounds like utter loopy mumbo-jumbo, but the science bore it out: his subject surveys indicated that people who were ofte...
One of Wiseman's most famous experiments involved a newspaper and a set task: count how many photographs appear inside. The trick, however, was that on the second page of the newspaper, Wiseman had planted a large advertisment reading "Stop counting. There are 43 photographs in this newspaper." Of his 400 participants, the ones who regularly said t...
Wiseman proved pretty conclusively that people's belief in their own luck seemed to sincerely influence the luck that happened to them. And it seems that lucky charms may also give a bit of a performance boost; if you truly think you have the golden ticket, you may do better at things involving skill and personal effort. A 2012 study of the whole l...
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Jan 31, 2013 · Richard Wiseman’s book The Luck Factor addresses four main habits of lucky people: Be open to more opportunities, interact with a large network of people, break routines and keep a relaxed ...
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- Be Mindful. Mindfulness is being non-judgmentally alert and aware of what’s going on around you as well as inside you—how you’re thinking and feeling.
- Be proactive. "Lucky" people make things happen. They are proactive rather than reactive. They make their future. And when you can take responsibility for your words, actions, and behavior, you have more control of your destiny.
- Be opportunistic. Successful people are opportunists. They have the ability to take advantage of novel and often concealed opportunities when they arise.
- Be insightful. There are two types of knowledge—explicit and implicit (or tacit). Explicit knowledge is the kind people gain from reading books and going to school—factual stuff.
Mar 28, 2021 · Having accepted that there is such a thing as luck, there are two ways of assessing how lucky one is as a person. The first one is to consider how much luck one has had in life up to the present...
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