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Wiseman has studied the principles of good and bad luck, publishing the results in the self-help book The Luck Factor. He showed that both good and bad luck result from measurable habits; for example, lucky people, by expecting good luck, might expend more effort in their endeavours, resulting in more success, reinforcing their belief in good luck.
According to Richard Wiseman, ... As noted in July's issue of Redbook magazine, the best selling author of The Luck Factorand Quirkologyconducted an experiment on the streets of Edinburgh ...
Luck in games involving chance is defined as the change in a player's equity after a random event such as a die roll or card draw. [13] Luck is positive (good luck) if the player's position is improved and negative (bad luck) if it is worsened. A poker player who is doing well (playing successfully, winning) is said to be "running good". [14]
Richard Wiseman used a variation of the story in his book The Luck Factor (2003), [9] to describe the difference in the processing of misfortune and strokes of fate in 'lucky devils' and 'unlucky fellows'. Coral Chen wrote and illustrated the children's book The Old Man Who Lost His Horse (2011) in English and Chinese.
Billionaires acknowledge that timing and luck play a major role in getting rich. However, many believe that creating your own luck is what separates the highly successful from everyone else ...
Edinburgh Skeptics Society has taken part in research projects, including an experiment on luck conducted by Richard Wiseman in 2011. The research tested proposals in Wiseman's book The Luck Factor , by investigating whether people could improve their luck by touching the toe of a statue of David Hume in Edinburgh's High Street, which is a ...
"Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it."--Hunter S. Thompson. Friday, March 18: "I believe you make your own luck. My motto is ...
Paranormality: Why we see what isn't there is a 2011 book about the paranormal by psychologist and magician Richard Wiseman.Wiseman argues that paranormal phenomena such as psychics, telepathy, ghosts, out-of-body experiences, prophesy and more do not exist, and explores why people continue to believe, and what that tells us about human behavior and the way the brain functions.