When something goes wrong, you can call it failure and stop, or call it feedback and adjust. Psychologist Richard Wiseman found that people who consider themselves lucky notice opportunities others miss, trust their gut instead of overthinking, and expect good outcomes.
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because luck is a lens. It's not about what happens, it's about what you notice and how you interpret it. Two people can experience the same exact setbacks. One calls it failure and the other one calls it feedback. One stops and then the other one adapts. In fact, there's a really cool study that I want to tell you about. There's this psychologist, Richard Wiseman. In one of the largest luck studies ever conducted, he found that lucky people consistently display these 3 characteristics. Write them down if you want to be lucky forever. The first one is they notice opportunities others ignore. Number 2 is they trust their intuition instead of overthinking. And number 3 is they expect positive outcomes, which alter their perception and actions in the world.