Psychology of LuckPsychology of LuckMade by: Erika AidukaitėPSbns1-01Made by: Erika AidukaitėPSbns1-01

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 – instinktaiBoost – 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.

ReferencesLiterature:

• 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.)

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