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"unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else." Or, those who are too focused looking for something else
by heyitsnick 17y ago
"unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else."
Or, those who are too focused looking for something else generally consider themselves to be unlucky.
Self-reporting on if you are "lucky" or not is a reflection on the positiveness, motivation and optimism of the person. Not if you are actually "lucky" or not.
This study for me draws conclusions about people's outlook on their lives and how it effects their ability to concentrate on given tasks. Involving 'luck' in this is just for the headlines.
- philk 17y agoSelf reporting that you are lucky is probably positively correlated with optimism. Optimism has a whole host of benefits that probably account for the "luck" that these individuals are enjoying.
- sophacles 17y agoI would hope so -- lucky is a magic property. Luck itself may be chance, but lucky is nonsense.
- kristiandupont 17y agoWell, you could define luck as "percieved luck" - after all, what else is there? It doesn't really make sense for me to state that someone else is lucky.
- heyitsnick 17y agoI agree. But that's exactly what the article says repeatedly.