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  1. Mar 28, 2018 · Luck, good or bad, builds on itself. Imagine two actresses who both audition for a recurring role on a TV show. They are equally good and neither has prior experience. In the end, the director ...

  2. Jan 2, 2018 · What he found after years of investigation is that luck is completely a matter of how we choose to look at our lives. The people who consider themselves lucky are the ones who recognize their own ...

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  3. Dec 2010. Using our practical wisdom. Barry Schwartz. Chance plays a far bigger role in life than we're willing to admit, says psychologist Barry Schwartz. Of course, working hard and following the rules can get you far -- but the rest could boil down to simple good fortune. Schwartz examines the overlooked link between luck, merit and success ...

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  4. Jul 16, 2021 · Luck in psychology is usually thought of as an attribution. An attribution is a decision we make about the cause of an event or the reason for something happening in the world. Because we’re ...

  5. May 23, 2024 · Appreciating the world is random can foster perseverance, gratitude for our own luck and empathy for the plight of others. Your luck, they say, can turn around. All you need to do is work a little harder. As a saying often attributed to the Roman philosopher Seneca goes: ‘Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.’.

  6. May 15, 2024 · Americans tend to really discount the role of luck in terms of their lives. One of the reasons is, we are strongly steeped in the idea of rugged individualism and meritocracy. People do it on their own, they succeed on their own, and they fail on their own. And the idea of luck and chance is not really in the picture.

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  8. Apr 13, 2016 · Robert H. Frank is an economics professor at Cornell University. He is the author of Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy and Under the Influence: Putting Peer Pressure to ...

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