[Assam] Why do some people have all the luck ?

[Ram Sarangapani]

This is indeed interesting, and there may actually be some truth here. Often
some behaviors (even though not consiously done) may actually bring luck (
or bad luck).

>Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety
disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected.

It could also be that unlucky people are less trusting, and may actually
suspect the ad (as a scam).

I remember some 10 years or so ago, HBO was concerned about cable theft (in
Florida). So, they had placed an ad on their network. The ad basically asked
people to call in and receive a gift, a tee shirt etc . Many called and went
personally to collect their gifts - only to be arrested.
HBO had made sure that genuine subscribers would not be able to view the ad
- only those who stole it.

--Ram

On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Dilip and Dil Deka <dilipdeka at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I just wanted to share this with you.
> Do you buy it?
> P.S. for those not in the USA - it means do you accept it?
> Dilip Deka
> ========================================================
> Why do some people have all the luck while others are perpetually unlucky?
> Professor Richard Wiseman of the University of Hertfordshire was determined
> to get to the scientific bottom of the phenomenon of luck, and what he
> discovered may surprise you:
> I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt
> consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me.
> Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and
> over the years, have been interviewed by me. I have monitored their lives
> and had them take part in experiments. The results reveal that although
> these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their
> thoughts and behaviour are responsible for much of their good and bad
> fortune. Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people
> consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.
> I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to
> differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky
> and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell
> me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message
> halfway through the newspaper saying: 'Tell the experimenter you have seen
> this and win $50'.
> This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more
> than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the
> unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.
> Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety
> disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected.
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