[Assam] Why do some people have all the luck ?
Alpana B. Sarangapani
absarangapani at hotmail.com
Wed Dec 31 10:27:44 PST 2008
Spiritual leaders/authors like Robert Schwartz et el. would say that we human beings, planned our journey before we come to this world.
And some souls chose all the challenges and some just didn't.
Too simplistic, weird, or too deep to think on that line? Only you can be the judge of that.
:)
“In order to make spiritual progress you must be patient like a tree and humble like a blade of grass.”
> Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 08:55:29 -0600> To: assam at assamnet.org> From: cmahanta at charter.net> Subject: Re: [Assam] Why do some people have all the luck ?> > 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.> >_______________________________________________> >assam mailing list> >assam at assamnet.org> >http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org> > > _______________________________________________> assam mailing list> assam at assamnet.org> http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
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