If you’re looking to improve your luck, crossing your fingers will only take you so far. In the event that you need better fortunes throughout your life and in the casino, a scientist has figured out the magic formula. Or if nothing else, Richard Wiseman, a teacher at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom, can put you on the right track. His research started with a basic inquiry: How is it conceivable that there are individuals who are dependably in the right place at the perfect time to benefit from good fortune, and other people who appear to draw to themselves nothing but bad luck?
Wiseman wanted to find an answer to this and so he proceeded with a number of experiments. He surveyed a group of volunteers to first designate how lucky they felt they were, and then to go through a series of specially designed tests. One test was very simple: the participants had to count the number of photos they saw in a newspaper. Planted within the test and in plain view was a short message that read: “Tell the researcher that you have seen this sign to win 250 pounds.” Those who considered themselves to be lucky stopped counting the photos and read the message out loud to claim the money. It was that easy. However, those who had previously considered themselves to be unlucky tensed up and in some cases didn’t say anything at all.
This result inspired a new central theory to the research: Luck is a question of attitude. “The majority of people simply aren’t aware of things in their environment,” says Wiseman. What’s more, in his opinion, only 10% of our existence is random, the other 90% is defined by how we handle the things that happen in our lives. In other words, this is good news. If we want to be luckier in life, we need to start with ourselves, and change the way that we think.
In a related study of gamblers that frequent Las Vegas, much of the same results that Wiesman discovered in his study was verified using the survey method. The attributes of lucky gamblers verified in that study was used as the bases for widely viewed Travel Show on cable TV. So there’s not much debate about the fact that lucky people, gamblers or otherwise, think differently than those that are less fortunate.
The good news is that anybody can enhance their luck by simply changing their attitude. The way they think. Now let’s take a look at what makes luck people so lucky and how you might benefit from this research … >>> Read More
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