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Apr 2, 2003 · Do you know any people who just seem to be 'lucky'? Turns out they have a set of techniques they've been using but not sharing with the rest of us. Or maybe they just learnt them subconsciously and don't know it?
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To see if unlucky people could turn their luck around, Wiseman enrolled his participants in his "luck school," where he put them through a series of exercises to increase their luck. The...
- 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...
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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Jun 26, 2023 · 1. Lucky people can see opportunities hiding in plain sight. Lucky people don’t wait for stuff to happen. They’re always on the lookout. They have a vision or a goal that helps to narrow their focus so their brain can see the right opportunities. Richard says lucky people have an open mind.
Jan 26, 2016 · 1. 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. Mindfulness occurs on a...
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