"What we’re doing is redefining that word luck. Now it’s an attribute you know with the person, rather than some outside force"
Can we mere mortals really hope to control Lady Luck?
That’s what magician turned psychologist Richard Wiseman believes.
After spending 10 years subjecting 1,000 people who described themselves as exceptionally lucky or unlucky to a barrage of psychological tests he distilled his four fundamental principles of a lucky life:
Four Steps to Being Lucky:
1. Lucky people maximise chance opportunities
2. Lucky people listen to their hunches
3. Lucky people expect good fortune
4. Lucky people turn bad luck into good
Watch the video from the ABC "Catalyst" website:
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2220191.htm