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The Open-Minded Attitude
is a Luck Magnet
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Richard Wiseman conducted
several tests and came to a
conclusion:
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the
open-minded attitude makes
people lucky;
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it’s not the luck that makes
people “unlucky” but their
tension and anxiety, which
prevents them to notice the
unexpected.
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Richard Wiseman, a British
psychology professor, who
studied the nature of luck, made
an experiment. He gave
participants a newspaper and
asked them to count the photos
all over the pages.
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People who considered themselves
as unlucky spent around two
minutes on average to count all
the photographs, while it took
just seconds for people who
tended to think that they were
lucky.
The reason was simple. The
“unlucky” group was
narrowly-minded focused on
counting and didn’t pay
attention to anything else.
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The “lucky” open-minded ones
were able to notice the huge
half-page-size message on the
second page, which was saying
“Stop counting — there are 43
photographs in this newspaper.”
There was also another large
message saying “Stop counting,
tell the experimenter you have
seen this and win $250.”
However, the “unlucky” people
were so concentrated that they
missed both messages.
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