BE LUCKY!

What Lucky People Do Differently than Unlucky People

What makes a person lucky? Often it's less about actual luck than it is about a person's general outlook. Here's why.

Former Wall Street Journal and Fortune writer Erik Calonius points to a fascinating study by a psychologist Richard Wiseman. Wiseman surveyed a bunch of people to find out who considered themselves lucky or unlucky, then performed a very interesting test:

[Wiseman] 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. CLICK FOR REST OF STORY