change your mind for a bit of luck

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Principle One: Maximise Chance Opportunities
Lucky people are skilled at creating, noticing and acting upon chance opportunities. They do this in various ways, including networking, adopting a relaxed attitude to life and by being open to new experiences.

Principle Two: Listening to Lucky Hunches
Lucky people make effective decisions by listening to their intuition and gut feelings. In addition, they take steps to actively boost their intuitive abilities by, for example, meditating and clearing their mind of other thoughts.

Principle Three: Expect Good Fortune
Lucky people are certain that the future is going to be full of good fortune. These expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies by helping lucky people persist in the face of failure, and shape their interactions with others in a positive way.

Principle Four: Turn Bad Luck to Good
Lucky people employ various psychological techniques to cope with, and often even thrive upon, the ill fortune that comes their way. For example, they spontaneously imagine how things could have been worse, do not dwell on the ill fortune, and take control of the situation.

[DaveJ]

1. My reply...

For whatever it's worth, since it seems there are so few people around to reply, I'll chip in my own two cents on this.

This article is asking individuals to change their psyche. What if they already have skills that would benefit the world if they were given the chance, yet they are never given that chance?

Okay, how do I say this... these principles are basically saying that if nobody will give you a chance, it's your own fault and nobody else's. Okay, no big deal. I'm hip to the frontier spirit; I know all about self reliance. For instance, a master carpenter who has spent all his life devoted to his field should consider joining the Blue Man Group. You know what I'm saying? That's ridiculous. In a free country people should be able to select their own line of work. However, this is not a free country since few people really do select their own line of work.

What gets me is that people who are capable of great things are nevertheless channeled into doing mindless grunt chores.

If nobody will give an individual who is being ignored a second thought; obviously that person has to start his own business. He may become greatly successful, but that success will not alleviate his feeling of resentment.