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Post by Fast Jimmy on Jan 8, 2016 14:01:18 GMT -6
Sorry to break it to you kids, but Luck is another lie we've been told for generations. It is simply ludicrous when you think about it for a moment. There are so many people in the world, so many different agendas, needs, desires, schemes. We all just bouncing off one another (more-or-less) randomly, and our brain wants to make sense of this, like seeing a face in a blurry photo or a pattern where there is only chaos. We have been conditioned over thousands of years to put things in order, to organize messes, simply because it makes it easier to cope. It is psychological evolution on the personal scale. Nothing more. Truth. The human brain is excellent at finding patterns where there are none to create the illusion of control, and at ignoring patterns when they don't please us, like our own self sabotaging behavior when trying to make changes like losing weight or quitting smoking. Actually, luck is a very real, somewhat scientifically measurable phenomenon. People who are "lucky" often excel at being open to new experiences and also being observant to picking out unique characteristics. The old example of finding a four leaf clover is an exact representation of this - the mutated weed is totally irrelevant to bringing someone luck. It is the act of being able to spot such a slight but significant mutation amongst other pedestrian options that indicates an observant personality. Similarly, the person who always seems to be dating the most amazing person or working the most interesting job usually is able to do so because they regularly place themselves in situations out of their normal routines and with people they may not have known otherwise. Opportunity and luck are often about nothing more than availability and proximity, something that people with certain behavioral characteristics always seem to find themselves in. So in that light, being in the right place at the right time, what many term as luck, is usually reflective of exposing yourself to a lot of places a lot of the time instead of getting stuck into the same daily behaviors and the same core group of contacts. |
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