
Richard Wiseman did not take this at face value: he studied luck. He found that unlucky people were narrowly focused on outcomes and the specific tasks rules required to achieve these outcomes. Lucky people had no pre-conceptions of when luck might strike; they had no pre-conceptions of what success might look like, they were more available and displayed no fixed routines. The takeaway of this is that we should all stop trying to predict the future bur rather let ourselv…