The Luck Factor
The Four Essential Principles
A psychologist spent years studying people who consider themselves lucky or unlucky, and concluded that luck is largely a mindset you can cultivate.
Psychologist Richard Wiseman spent years studying people who consider themselves lucky or unlucky and concluded that luck is largely a mindset you can cultivate. Through experiments and interviews he distills four principles: notice opportunities, trust intuition, expect good fortune, and turn bad breaks around. The lucky, he argues, simply behave in ways that generate more chances and better outcomes. An evidence-based, practical read that reframes luck as a skill rather than fate.
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Ali Abdaal
Video · December 2022
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