Psychology of Luck
Made by: Erika Aidukaitė
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Content
• Introduction
• The Luck Factor
• Maximise Chance
Opportunities
• Listening to Lucky Hunches
• Expect Good Fortune
• Turn Bad to Good
• Reasons why people are
unlucky
• Conclusions
• References
Introduction
• Psychology of luck is very arguable theme nowadays.
• What luck depends on?
• It is important to know:
– Why some people are called accident-prone and others just
lucky guys?
– How to create your own luck?
Superstitious beliefs – prietarai
Accident-prone – traukiantis nelaimes
The Luck Factor
• The four principles to
become lucky:
– Maximise Chance
Opportunities
– Listening to Lucky
Hunches
– Expect Good Fortune
– Turn Bad Luck to Good
Hunch – nuojauta, įtarimas
Richard Wiseman
Maximise Chance Opportunities
• Wiseman’s experiment with people who
call themselves lucky and unlucky.
• Lucky people score higher on the
personality factor of extraversion and in
openness.
• Lucky people score lower in neuroticism.
• Lucky people keep in touch with large
groups of friends and acquaintances.
acquaintances - pažįstami
Listening to Lucky Hunches
• Effective decisions by
listening to intuition and
gut feelings.
• Take steps to boost
your intuitive abilities:
– Meditate
– Clear mind from other
thoughts
Gut feelings – instinktai
Boost – paskatinti
Expect Good Fortune
• Lucky people are certain
that the future is going to
be full of fortune.
• Self-fullfilling prophecies
by helping lucky people
persist in the face of
failure.
prophecies - pranašystės
Turn Bad Luck to Good
• “Counter-factual” – ability to
imagine what might have
happened, rather than what
actually did happen.
• Take control of situation.
• Lucky people employ various
psychological techniques to
cope with, and often even
thrive upon, the ill fortune
that comes their way.
Thrive upon - apsidžiaugti
Reasons why people are
unlucky
• Some personality traits
depend on the month of
birth.
• Lack of self-esteem.
• Superstitious beliefs.
• Focusing on one subject.
Self-esteem – pasitikėjimas
savimi
Personality traits – asmenybės
bruožai
Superstitious beliefs - prietarai
Conclusions
• Everyone can create his/her own
luck.
• A person chooses his/her path of
life.
• There are no superstitions working!
• The only one thing that affects
person’s is his/her vision to life.
References
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Literature:
http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/The_Luck_Factor.pdf (watched 2012.03.03.)
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201005/make-your-own-luck (watched
2012.03.03.)
http://www.richardwiseman.com/research/psychologyluck.html (watched 2012.03.03.)
Pictures:
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2012.03.03)
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