5: Luck
Richard Wiseman's On Your Mind
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How to Increase Luck in Sports
People become more optimistic about the future. They start to change their sense of self identity because now they've got this big body of evidence. And so that very, very simple intervention, psychologists would call it technique, actually had a huge impact on people. The rituals are very common in sport and in acting as well. There's been some work where you get students to take in their good luck charm into exams. Those people actually outperform people. It's kind of cruel, but enjoyable.
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