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

[Chan Mahanta]

O' Deka:

Too simplistic a conclusion is how I see it.

O'm









At 7:16 PM -0800 12/30/08, Dilip and Dil Deka 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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