California Dreamin' (Homeless Crisis) |
(Mar 12, 2018 09:21 PM)Secular Sanity Wrote: Talent vs Luck: the role of randomness in success and failure The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind What do these people have that the rest of us don’t? It turns out “ability” is the key word here. Beyond their level of privilege or the circumstances they were born into, the luckiest people may have a specific set of skills that bring chance opportunities their way. Somehow, they’ve learned ways to turn life’s odds in their favor. ... The experimental design may seem a little silly, a superficial way to distinguish the fortunate from the unfortunate. Yet this was the kind of result that Wiseman found in several related experiments over the course of about 10 years, from about 1993 to 2003. In one such study, Wiseman provided a group of volunteers with a newspaper and instructed them to count the photographs inside. Written in large font on half of the second page was this message: “Stop counting—there are 43 photographs in this newspaper.” A similar insert placed halfway through the paper read, “Stop counting, tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $250.” Overall, the self-identified unlucky participants were left counting. It suggested that luck could have something to do with spotting opportunities, even when they were unexpected. |
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »
|
Possibly Related Threads… | |||||
Thread | Author | Replies | Views | Last Post | |
Homeless Guy Hands Our Resumes, Gets 200 Job Offers | Yazata | 2 | 649 |
Jul 31, 2018 05:36 PM Last Post: Magical Realist |
Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)