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Subject: [extreme] the loser's guide to getting lucky
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Last Updated: Monday, 22 December, 2003, 13:23 GMT
The loser's guide to getting lucky
By Professor Richard Wiseman
University of Hertfordshire
Why do some people get all the luck while others
never get the breaks they deserve? A psychologist
says he has discovered the answer.
Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck.
I wanted to know why some people are always in
the right place at the right time, while others
consistently experience ill fortune.
I placed advertisements in national newspapers
asking for people who felt consistently lucky or
unlucky to contact me.
Hundreds of extraordinary men and women
volunteered for my research and, over the years,
I have interviewed them, monitored their lives
and had them take part in experiments.
Professor Wiseman's top tips
The results reveal that although these people
have almost no insight into the causes of their
luck, their thoughts and behaviour are
responsible for much of their good and bad
fortune.
Those who have succeeded at anything and don't
mention luck are kidding themselves
Larry King
Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities.
Lucky people consistently encounter such
opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.
I carried out a simple experiment to discover
whether this was due to differences in their
ability to spot such opportunities.
I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper,
and asked them to look through it and tell me how
many photographs were inside.
Professor Wiseman's formula came too late for some...
I had secretly placed a large message halfway
through the newspaper saying: "Tell the
experimenter you have seen this and win �250."
This message took up half of the page and was
written in type that was more than two inches
high.
Anxiety
It was staring everyone straight in the face, but
the unlucky people tended to miss it and the
lucky people tended to spot it.
Everything in life is luck
Donald Trump
Unlucky people are generally more tense than
lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their
ability to notice the unexpected.
As a result, they miss opportunities because they
are too focused on looking for something else.
They go to parties intent on finding their
perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make
good friends.
They look through newspapers determined to find
certain types of job advertisements and miss
other types of jobs.
Self-fulfilling prophecies
Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and
therefore see what is there rather than just what
they are looking for.
Luck is believing you're lucky
Tennessee Williams
My research eventually revealed that lucky people
generate good fortune via four principles.
They are skilled at creating and noticing chance
opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening
to their intuition, create self-fulfilling
prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a
resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into
good.
Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether
these principles could be used to create good
luck.
I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month
carrying out exercises designed to help them
think and behave like a lucky person.
Dramatic results
These exercises helped them spot chance
opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect
to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the
harder I work, the more I have of it
Thomas Jefferson
One month later, the volunteers returned and
described what had happened. The results were
dramatic: 80% of people were now happier, more
satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most
important of all, luckier.
The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky.
Finally, I had found the elusive "luck factor" .
Here are Professor Wiseman's four top tips for becoming lucky:
* Listen to your gut instincts - they are normally right
* Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine
* Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well
* Visualise yourself being lucky
before an important meeting or telephone call.
Luck is very often a self-fulfilling prophecy
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(culled from www.asondheim.org)
a 10-year history of
loving,
writings,
video,
soundwork,
net work,
unemployment,
depression,
illness,
sadness,
death,
violence,
bombings,
wars,
pollutions,
extinctions,
starvations,
loving comprehension. I am typing this lovingly, morosely, on my Compaq
Aero 486/25; the bright- derous for the eye, loving to the ears as well -
and is there a difference cept, of distant loving is for me, by its very
nature, violent, violating, another post. they surround lovingly the
breast of clara hielo, the Clara: thinking and loving, writing, the murmur
of the world saving the signifier. Rock has nothing against paper; paper
lovingly co- hole: this is what appears out of cyberspace, the challenge
of loving the pages, yours, letters swollen, loving your mouth. they will
lovingly listen to your talking, and they will talk with you. 3000 be
around to celebrate it my writings will be ash this list beyond Jones'
writings which were reissued) - and I couldn't play blues; writings have
boundaries blurried by duplications, erasures, transforms surrounding him
(his writings); in any case, the case in which dyslexia Siva, The Erotic
Ascetic; her writings on Hinduism have some affinity, I is no hope. My
great vision has disappeared in little writings. I lose
scattered among interpenetrated writings writings share accountancy in
common, the earlier computers considered The dispersion of the first and
last writings are identical. One connects, First and last _writings_
ordains Being with matrix, Male, video, 1992, 40' Revised Greatest Hits,
video, 1992, 118' Wupatki, video, 1990, 15' Angelina and Sorrow, video,
1989, 13' [Note: This does not include film before 1980 or video before
1988.] 10 videotapes completed for Cogitations Ltd., 1973 resistance;
when, about eight months ago, I began discussing video cli- phony and
video, and linux. placing the others. Audio, video, and extended
graphics/animation modal- techniques at times reminiscent, say, of video
compression - and that providing soundwork for Merce Cunningham), Gordon
Mumma, Cornelius Cardew, lied - not counting the cd soundwork or the
potential video - my texts and still images, with some of the
music/soundwork. oh i can move among spaces videos, soundworks, and
performances. Nikuko would pirouette for Doctor and the labor involved
which was the inverse of the soundworks, in which 2. That raw telnet works
with talkers reasonably well - the only real pro- Here's how the net
works. You get attracted to someone. You write back and into hacking and
internet works - storms all they're sullen depressions residue truth read
twelve to fourteen hours a day depression sliding down the walls during
depression what broken limbs she senses "the hitting her" "the why
maintenance celexa obsessive depression state ends transform substance
faced failures depressions tolerates melds away horror today feature
depression qi build laying bricks stones foot floored bare words letters
mail them from alt corn husks depression depression like a mineral." for
the most part a thing of the past. Surely this is part of depression, it
in about 20 hours or so (waiting for post-vacation depression to sink I
mean this literally; I feel the onset of illness, simulacra piled on,
Isn't it always a case of illness, I'll-ness. I'll tell you the truth,
stillness, coldness in pre-Columbian night - must be to be reading #15 in
can occur in any chronic or debilitating illness. ther organ,
membrane-spreads of _illnesses of the surface,_ attacks on cal or
physio-psychological illnesses, or physio-illnesses, any and by the birch
(denuded by illness as the species slowly disappears), to give a name to
your illness, give a name to your illness 1999 smiling everywhere, yet
other organs, uncanny stillness, strangeness mother's illness, which has
taken a terrible turn for the worse. I keep lete, the passing of a
favorite. There is an incontrovertible sadness
making you feel wonderful."}, {"cry", "%n cries, half in sadness and sary
to present this sadness: "_a_ [..] yards," indicative of a tiny rough with
the roar of trucks, sadnesses and consolations. I picked them up; I
There's sadness in the forest if you've reached this part. You forget
Hokusai cries, half in sadness and mourning, half in pure exhaustion. la
daraine There's sadness in the forest if you've reached this part. in
algaes, & hearing there are other things in the world & sadness of as
moans of despair, sobs of sadness. They were the groanings of a per-
much sadness although ( a fact the _instrument_ of the death of the
species, the death of being- locate ourselves in the dominion of death. It
will never strike us down When death comes, it comes in full view; you can
hear it. Today I walked durate, even death which is becoming a
_deduction._ For ourselves, for olding. So isn't death a residue? death,
love, colonization; they stop objects from sliding beyond tradi-
Gender: vaginality/eccentric space/binding/origin/death/displacement
death |, meets the totalizahon of organs, and so on. Thus I am y i Seduced
solitude oi death in both I am hole again. death and its simulacra.)
monitoring need only be properly applied, coupled with realistic violence,
ear development of the violence of territory? Hunting _grounds_ are un-
Native American had to lose ground. Ignorance, racism and violence accom-
I don't suggest you seek it out. It is on the far side of rape, violence,
a lot of this work doesn't problematize its own representation of violence
it! You get violent, threaten violence; you get mean, flame once or twice,
is going to be anything more than the transposing of violence to cyber-
within me, keeping her violence (to which I respond with my own) going,
The violence of a flame in cyberspace kills someone through the force of
Note in passing (as this is all in passing) the violence inherent in the
to bombings, aerial or otherwise, missiles of crews, sical acts humans are
capable of. The Net is tending towards increased Is there anything other
than temporary identities, softwares, communities, and time, continuously
upgraded software, electronic investment, variety planet heading towards
the double cusp of plague and pure virtuality. As or thwarted precisely to
the extent that it is not Being but emergence it- cing the texts within,
if I alone am aware of this? And such a totality sion. It's awkward,
inoperable; it belongs nowhere. It's not publishable incoherent
maintenance of inscriptions. Spew is also desire thwarted, tendenz towards
retirement, towards a closure beyond the Net 1-14, beyond finally,
furtively, discarded. So it must continue onward, push itself can kill us;
our bodies rapidly absorb bullets, pollutions, viruses, poi- and
pollutions exhaust the land everywhere. In spite of occasional suc- tions
- extinctions, pollutions, desertifications, abandonments, colonias,
pollution, nightly pollutions So you see, this teetering world, these
texts, these cultures, pollutions, in kelp, seed-pods of aquatic plants
adapting to stratified pollutions
pollutions reaching down to the very depths of the seas.
- it is all the same beneath imploded signifiers, extinctions, inverting
his policies of ruthless extinctions enclaves of rich prepare for war.
extinctions have reached maximum warriors of extinctions - policy of
scorched worlds - mindfulness and the and humans on the way to
extinctions... _lost processes,_ extinctions of variables and elegance.
The _shamble_ word to cover changes such as flexiwork, global extinctions,
here i will survive until the final extinctions animal/plant extinctions,
my inability to support myself at this point, tions - extinctions,
pollutions, desertifications, abandonments, colonias, guor, infinite
erotics, starvations, extinctions: FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY.
_
nn
moaning, nietzsche's
quote by nietzsche, from his notebooks There is no form in nature,
child I used to do errands for Mr. nietzsche? I carried his rucksack when
wheel which returns, qua nietzsche, only within an inconceivable future,
science no matter what warnings came from nietzsche, Kierkegaard, etc.
nietzsche, and Barthes; Lingis' exhilerated accounts of the other/
nietzsche isn't working, neither Holderlin nor Wagner, nor destiny, nothing
nietzsche fumbled through the spittle of remembering the shapes he was
lovely shaved, skin inscribed with nietzsche's troubled dreams; he'd
His asshole whimpered and he knew he was a woman and a Jew. nietzsche
nietzsche fumbles with the children, dumb! dumb! He thinks, I have to save
nietzsche Sues The Factory, Factory Down in Flames. That Will Teach them!
nietzsche KNOWS he HAS TO SAVE THE CHILDREN! THEY WERE nEVER SAFE FUCK
nietzsche thinks he spells his name. He WORRIES the children. HE WANTS TO
Whenever he rants, nietzsche is no doubt really original. On such occa
nietzsche and Karl Kraus hmmm... all Germans trying to create a kind
nietzsche's Television
could ever believe this nonsense way before radio? Against nietzsche
anything at all. Think of the last message from nietzsche's rare
long run nietzsche would have liked this manipulation but then
thee. Let us not forget that Heidegger, after nietzsche, was blind
tomorrow it may be nietzsche and Heidegger again. Certainly I look
Kristeva, other depressives I'd even put nietzsche in there through a
enhauer, Kant, Kierkegaard, nietzsche who he finds seductive, Heidegger,
thought. In nietzsche's time, or Kierkegaard's, both branches might well
dues, Kristeva, nietzsche, Quine, that I should have died. Ruining my
nietzsche, Ecce Homo.
nietzsche, in spite of his gaze, cleared of the necessity of the clot
What nietzsche has lost by virtue of soap and the problems of soap,
chapters on: Kant, Hegel, Marx, nietzsche, Weber ...
and chapters on: Kant, Hegel, Marx, nietzsche,
Hegel, Marx, nietzsche, Weber, Freud,
with nietzsche, Bataille, Jabes, and others, for whom the fragment is
Diogenes, nietzsche hobbles along, also hobbled by Christianity as well.
THE WOMAN: nietzsche/Irigaray/Wittgenstein, recognition and the
These, however, was written by nietzsche. And it was nietzsche whom he
left behind is the carriage of nietzsche, is nietzsche himself or
something else. neither nietzsche or Wittgenstein would understand
HONEY or TIFFANY and perhaps nietzsche blamed women ignored by
anti philosophers, nietzsche for example. Every pronouncement
to the onslaught of the species, even nietzsche contra Wagner.
Wagner splinters against nietzsche, only to be resurrected through
writing at all, but those mnemonics spoken of my nietzsche/Kittler Dis
noticed. Kittle op. cit., nietzsche, Genealogy
my love alan comes and takes me from nijinsky's arms, he's an idiot too
nijinsky reach the heights of his profession fills me with tears
nijinksy in his pirouettes, his neurotic body twisting, nijinsky will have
above nijinsky, i will rise, beneath alan, i will serve, i am a female, my
inger russian ques goloid nijinsky's git Myths and Texts, #94.
the freezing of nijinsky leaps on the street of musicals
my name is nijinski nijinsky!
my name is nijinsky nijinski!
that fellow nijinski nijinsky! they say ping
that fellow nijinsky nijinski! ping ping
dancer lifts another, that no one alive today saw nijinsky dance, and the
I do not know, but that I identify with the life of Vaslav nijinsky.
It is so silent that it is not a language of its own. nijinsky opens
taken away, just like Mr. nijinsky does now.
Romola nijinsky, nijinsky
>From nijinsky's diary:
Vaslav nijinsky
probably the only sculpture of nijinsky done from life.
that no one alive today saw nijinsky dance, and the point isn't the
nijinsky, Diary
more difficult to cope with nijinsky. He was more silent and irritable
6 Hungry dancers the ninubaski Master nijinsky, nureyev, Baryshni
nijinsky
apres tous nijinsky
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