5: Luck
Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind
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Optimism and the Unconscious
In general, optimism tends to be better. We're all optimistic and we're all unrealistically optimistic. So you ask people, are you a safe driver over in terms of the average? Everyone is... But everyone else is just nonsense rubbish. It's got unrealistic optimism and yeah, it keeps us going. The lucky people were unrealistic optimists. And all of this is happening. I'm talking about interventions that make this happen at a conscious level,. but this is all unconscious. Yes.
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