Luck does exist according to science

Amulets, energy stones, 4-leaf clover, knocking on wood, candle colors, crossing your fingers,… Do they attract luck? And, passing under a ladder, the number 13, seeing a black cat,… do they bewitch us with an aura of bad luck? The answer is no. But be careful, in return, Science seems to have discovered how to attract luck.

Richard Wiseman, professor at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom, conducted research based on the following question: How is it possible that there are people who are in the right place at the best time for positive things to happen to them? and others, however, seem to have been blessed with the gift of inopportunity?

With his research Wiseman came to the following conclusion: a good part of fortune or lack thereof has to do with attitude. In his words: “Most (unwelcome) people are simply not open to what is around them.”

Keys to luck

According to Wiseman, there are four keys to attracting luck (And be careful, we want to make a distinction between luck and chance; Chance would be, for example, that we win the lottery. Our only room for maneuver is to buy a tenth. Luck is a much broader concept, it depends on us to a greater extent than chance:

Maximize your opportunities

It makes sense, right? If we lock ourselves at home, how many exciting things and how many opportunities to change our lives could we have? It doesn’t seem like many, does it?

Richard assures that “the lucky people act on the opportunities you find in your life; try, start small with endless projects and base your learning on interaction; unlike the unfortunate ones, who suffer from paralysis by analysis.”

According to Wiseman, certain types of personalities are luckier, since they tend to create scenarios that maximize opportunities. For example: extroverted people, by spending more time with others, in a society in which most jobs are filled with “acquaintances”, will have more opportunities to get a good job.

Instead, anxious people will be less likely to notice what is happening or happening around you; Therefore, an opportunity will have to be more encouraging for them to notice it. This scientific experiment highlights that if we resist the new, it is likely that we will not have many opportunities to change our destiny. In this way, luck plays when there is uncertainty.

Listen to your hunches

Lucky people act on their intuition. in many areas of their lives.

Almost 90% of the lucky people said that he trusted his intuition when it came to personal relationships, and almost 80% said it played a vital role in their career and financial decisions.

And intuition is not magic. Research has shown on several occasions that it is often valid. What’s more, practicing meditation and once relaxed, repeating a word or phrase over and over again in order to clear the mind of other thoughts, stimulates intuition in the medium term.

“What appears to be intuition is actually experience in the area, a pattern that somehow the body and brain have already detected and you have not consciously seen. People with bad luck tend not to follow their intuition, since they don’t know where it comes from and they feel anxious about it and about the decision they have to make,” Wiseman.

Wait for good fortune

It’s that simple, you have to be optimistic. We will be more likely to try new things, take opportunities, and achieve success if we believe everything will work out. The magic is that when we think things will turn out well, we persevere. And when we are resilient, we provide more possibilities that work in our favor.

And although it may sound naive, it turns out that While pessimists see the world more accurately, optimists are more likely to be lucky because their “delusions” or “self-deceptions” push them towards new opportunities.

Whether through amulets or just a lot of optimism, The truth is that in this way we increase our self-confidence which, in turn, encourages a life full of beautiful coincidences.

So being a little deluded can help us, because overconfidence increases productivity, biases us positively, decreases stress and increases pain tolerance, while improving teamwork. But, What happens when things still go wrong? What should we do when we are acting appropriately, but bad luck still hits us in the face?

Lucky people aren’t always lucky, but they handle adversity differently. to people who attract bad luck and see the positive side of the situation. Especially because these people They are convinced that any setback in their life will bring something better in the long run. and consequently take constructive steps to avoid more bad luck in the future. So in the face of disappointment we should not give up on a new future or lock ourselves at home because that is not going to help us.

“When things get difficult we have two options: give in or keep going.. Lucky people are resilient. I remember talking to someone who had fallen down the stairs and broken his leg. I said, I bet you don’t consider yourself so lucky now; However, she said that on the last hospital visit she met a nurse and they fell in love with her. Now the two are happily married. He just said, “It was the best thing that ever happened to me,” Wiseman said.

In his opinion, only 10% of our existence is random, The remaining 90% is defined by how we face what happens to us. So this is good news. If we want to be luckier, we have to start with ourselves, with thinking in a kinder way.

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