How to get lucky by the tail and not let go

There are a few rules that will help the most recent loser to become a lucky winner, but this will have to change their way of thinking. And it is not in constant hard work, but the ability to see opportunities where they have to strive for it and use every chance that life throws up.

Not so simple

When you think about the winners and losers, successful and losers, and at the same time pay attention only on one, you're missing half the actual events. For example, you decide to open a restaurant, because in your city a lot of successful restaurants. But you lose sight of the fact that there were only successful restaurants, because only they survived.

Maybe 90% of all restaurants in your town were ruined on the first year, and you do not know about it, because they will immediately disappear from sight. As Nassim Taleb wrote in his book "The Black Swan," "In the graveyard of failed restaurants very quiet."

Those who survived, are beginning to pour advice in the style of "I did it", which combines a simple cause and effect. If you "get up early / not lazy / plan your day / goal setting", you will be successful "businessman / writer / actor."

If you believe this advice and think that one action leads the only one consequence, you are thinking it is very flat. It is this kind of error when you try to shove life chaos and unpredictability into an ordered structure.

But success is not linear and can not be a simple logic, where the particular event necessarily follows another, no less certain. David Lee wrote most "tenacious" entrepreneurs They do not predict events, and are able to cooperate with the unpredictability.

To put it metaphorically, deadlocks can turn into broad avenues, if you can correctly use the unpredictable life events.

Some people can be called lucky, but it would be more correct to say that they just know how to use your chance.

How to create your own luck

Psychologist Richard Wiseman conducted research about luck. For 10 years, he watched four hundred people of different professions, who called themselves lucky to or losers. In his book MakReyni a brief description of the experiment:

In one experiment, Wiseman gave participants a task to count the pictures in the newspaper. People who considered themselves to be terrible losers spent on the job for about 2 minutes, and those who called themselves lucky, a couple of seconds. The fact is that on the second page of the newspaper he published in huge letters "Enough to believe in the newspaper 43 photos." Further, on one of the pages at least in large letters it was printed: "Stop counting. Tell the experimenter you have seen it, and you'll get $ 250. " None of the "losers" never read the first inscription, nor the second, they simply continued on their own to consider pictures.

So good luck - this is what you are looking for, looking intently into life, and, in the course of this search, create it yourself. This is your way of thinking, it is your actions and reactions to people and events that occur in your life.

Good luck - it's not magic, it's the ability to work better with the unexpected, strange and many-sided probabilities, which throws you a life. David Wiseman

Fortunately, Wiseman was not limited to the bare theory and provided a number of ways, which help not to miss the chance. Based on his study can suggest the following:

The opportunities for the full

You can not just ignore and use the different opportunities, but also to create their own, or rather, to do everything possible so that could arise. More acquaintances, meetings and openness to new ideas and projects - all this helps to get a chance in life, and, of course, use them.

listen to yourself

Lucky people never ignore their hunches and trust them. By the way, meditation helps to pump intuition, that is, to remove from his mind the extra thought and learn to listen to yourself.

Fortuna kisses optimists

Anxiety and pessimism cloud the mind, they do not give to see the possibilities. Quiet optimism and confidence that everything will be, on the contrary, helps to search for new opportunities and find them.