psychology of luck
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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.)
Pictures:• http://7experts.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-find-thin-content-on-yours-site.html
(watched 2012.03.03)• http://vasichka.deviantart.com/art/Introduction-154631532 (watched 2012.03.03)• http://www.rationalistinternational.net/associates/r_wiseman.htm (watched
2012.03.03)• http://searchforfriendsonfacebook.com/search-for-friends-on-facebook-a-clever-tri
ck/ (watched 2012.03.03)
• http://imo.thejakartapost.com/anyil/2012/02/23/reveal-the-science-of-luck-how-to-make-our-own-good-fortune/ (watched 2012.03.03)
• http://www.parents.com/baby/shower/themes/good-fortune-baby-shower/ (watched 2012.03.03)
• http://blog.bigquizthing.com/2010_12_01_archive.html (watched 2012.03.03)• http://hcprojectjournal.blogspot.com/2012/01/think-about-yourself.html (watched
2012.03.03)• http://randomyesusefulno.com/post/193702245/a-cat-and-a-lollipop-via-the-world-
according-to (watched 2012.03.03)
Thank You! Have a nice day
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