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August
17, 2006:
How To Be More Lucky
Interview
with Dr. Richard Wiseman, author of The
Luck Factor
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Mike
Carruthers:
The subject on whether people are truly lucky or unlucky has
been scientifically studied.
Dr. Richard Wiseman:
After conducting all of the experiments and all the research,
it boiled down to four basic psychological principals.
Professor Richard
Wiseman, author of the book, The
Luck Factor…
So lucky people
- very open to opportunities, making good decisions by trusting
their inner voice and following their lucky hunches - they expect
to be lucky in the future and those expectations become self-fulfilling
prophecies. And also they're very resilient - when bad luck
comes along they know how to handle it.
And unlucky people,
says Professor Wiseman, are just the opposite.
So for them they're
in a rut - they don't really see opportunities even when they're
right in front of them; they don't listen to their inner voice;
in terms of expectations, they expect to be unlucky and when
any bad luck comes along, they're very fatalistic and they'll
create more ill fortune.
But interestingly,
lucky people are no more fortunate than unlucky people when
it comes to chance events like winning the lottery.
We monitored
a thousand people who were playing the lottery who consider
themselves exceptionally lucky and unlucky. Now there's no doubt
the lucky people expected to win - and because of that they
bought a few more tickets. But when you controlled for that,
they're actually winning no more or less than the unlucky people.
So when it comes to purely chance events like the lottery, I
don't think there is anything such as luck - there's nothing
paranormal here.
For transcripts
visit our website somethingyoushouldknow.net
- I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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