Feeling Lucky?

Ever think how to improve you luck? If Feng-Shui doesn't work, maybe you can try the principles suggested in this book. Based on the author's "scientific research"*, they are:

1. "Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives."

So don't shy away from your chance encounters. Don't get tunnel visioned by anxiety and fail to see new solutions.

2. "Lucky people make successful decisions by using their intuition and gut feelings."

If you have read the book "How We Decide"(another interesting read), you know gut feelings are actually our subconscious mind working. They can recognize patterns much faster than our "logical" mind, so listen to them, but double check your facts.

3. "Lucky people's expectations about future help them fulfill their dreams and ambitions."
If you think you are lucky and destined to something, setbacks won't stop you. On the other hand, if you think you are always unlucky, you won't even try. It becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

4. "Lucky people are able to transform their bad luck into good fortune."
In short, they fail smart. Instead of blaming on their luck, they learn from their mistakes.

Do they work for me? I don't think I have more good fortunes when I adopt some of these principles, but I do learn to cope with setbacks better. Who knows, maybe that's enough to be called lucky.

* Like most of the psychology experiments, I found these experiments too primitive to be called "scientific". Most of the time they measure correlation , but cannot prove any cause and effect, so don't take the "science" part too seriously but treat it like a different perspective.