Be Smart To Be Luckier

August 22, 2014 Leave a comment


wealthymattersMy roommate would hardly ever prepare for exams, just do a night-out (study all night) before exams from my notes, leave out complete chapters and manage a decent 65%!

Lucky? No. Smart! She zeroed in on the right notes to read, had the sense to drop the non-payers and concentrate on the correct stuff.

Somewhere, the line between luck and smartness is thin and merges. What we see as being born luck is a sort of skill in focussing on getting the most out of life with the least expenditure of  resources.

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Richard Wiseman’s Experiment

August 22, 2014 Leave a comment


wealthymattersPsychologist Richard Wiseman surveyed a bunch of people to find out who considered themselves lucky or unlucky, then performed a very interesting test:

He gave both the “lucky” and the “unlucky” people a newspaper and asked them to look through it and tell him how many photographs were inside. He found that on average the unlucky people took two minutes to count all the photographs, whereas the lucky ones determined the number in a few seconds.

How could the “lucky” people do this? Because they found a message on the second page that read, “Stop counting. There are 43 photographs in this newspaper.”

So why didn’t the unlucky people see it? Read more of this post

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The Secret Of Luck

August 9, 2013 4 Comments


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I happened to be at home during lunchtime today and caught this very interesting program on History TV18. Do watch this episode of Darren Brown’s Experiments.

If you would build a fortune,luck is very important and this program will show you how to be lucky.

Being lucky is a state of the mind,an attitude and an approach to life that pays huge dividends,So why not watch the show and then practice being lucky?

And if you are a parent how about letting your children win often and create a lucky mindset? Read more of this post

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