Psychology of Luck - How to Get Lucky in Life

What can be the connection between luck and psychology? Luck, you can tell me, is either given by fate or by a man with his own hand, through his perseverance and unceasing efforts. So be it? Psychology teaches us something completely different...

Behavior, thinking, and attitude towards life make the difference between the lucky and the unlucky!

University of Hertfordshire psychologist Richard Wiseman, the author of The Luck Factor, has been investigating life luck for years. He wanted to do his best to investigate the impact of lucky opportunities in people's lives, how happy events occur, and the ability to be in the right place at the right time.

At the beginning of his study, Wiseman published advertisements in national newspapers and high-circulation magazines, asking people who felt very lucky or, on the contrary, very unlucky, to contact him. Finally, he did his research with 400 volunteers of all ages, from an 18-year-old student to an 84-year-old retired accountant.

Jessica, a 42-year-old forensic scientist, was a representative of the lucky ones. She says, "I have a dream job, two wonderful children, and a husband I love very much. It's amazing; when I look back on my life, I realize how lucky I am in any field."

By contrast, Carolyn, a 34-year-old nurse, was typical of the unlucky group. She was prone to accidents after accidents. In one week, he had dislocated his leg in a pit on the road, injured his back after another fall, and drove into a tree during a driving lesson. She was miserable and in love, and she felt that she was always in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Over the years, Richard Wiseman interviewed these volunteers, asked them to write diaries, answer questionnaires, and complete intelligence tests. In the end, he came to the conclusion that although unlucky people have no idea what the causes of their failures are, their thoughts and behavior are in fact the source of their destiny.

A relevant example is that of opportunities! Lucky people have opportunities, but not the unlucky ones. To find out why this is happening, Wiseman did a very simple experiment ...

He gave both the lucky and the unlucky people a newspaper and asked them all to find out how many photos were on its pages. On average, it took the unfortunate people two minutes to count the photos, while the lucky ones did the same thing in just a few seconds! Explication? The second page of the newspaper contained the message: "Stop counting. There are 43 photos in this newspaper."

This message was displayed in half a page in extremely large characters. However, the unfortunate people were inclined to ignore him, while the lucky ones noticed him at first sight.

Richard Wiseman jokingly did even more. He also placed a second ad in the middle of the newspaper, as striking as the first, saying, "Stop counting. Tell the researcher that you saw this ad and you will earn £ 250. " Again, unlucky people missed this opportunity because they were too focused on looking for photos!

Personality tests have shown that unlucky people are generally tenser than the lucky ones, and this has prevented them from taking into account something unexpected, out of the ordinary.

In another experiment, Wiseman asked participants to follow a moving point in the middle of a computer screen. Without warning, larger dots appeared at the edges of the screen from time to time on the monitor. Almost everyone noticed them.

The experiment was then repeated with the second group of people, who were promised a large sum of money if they managed to focus as much as possible on the focal point.

This made them tense, so only a third of them noticed the larger dots at the edges of the monitor. The more they focused on the center point, the less they noticed the peripheral ones!

So is luck! Unlucky people are missing out on opportunities because they are focusing on something else. They go, for example, to a party with the intention of finding a partner as close to perfection as possible, and for this reason, they miss the opportunity to make a useful, lasting friendship.

They look in the newspapers for a certain type of job and, as a result, neglect to overlook other types of jobs that would benefit them. Lucky people are more relaxed and more open, and for this reason, he observes far more than he intends to seek!

According to Richard Wiseman's psychological research, people are attracted to life by four basic principles. They are adept at creating and discerning opportunities, making good decisions by listening to their intuition, making their prophecies achievable through positive expectations, and adopting an optimistic, flexible attitude that turns their bad luck into luck.

Unlucky people are not receptive to their instincts. The lucky ones are interested in both thinking and feeling, various options, without being limited to the rational side of a situation. Unfortunate people tend to give in to the routine, go to work and get back from work on the same road, and talk to the same kind of people at parties or in their free time.

Lucky people, on the other hand, try to introduce as much variety as possible into their lives. They are inclined to see the positive side of a situation, even if it is not a very happy one, they imagine how things could have been even worse, and they are constantly enjoying success in everything they set out to do! People who always notice the full side of the glass of life always bring good luck to them!