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Luck

The Why Factor

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Are You Taking Risks?

In people with positive no mentality will ternd to be healthier as well. They'll tend to live longer. So this is a useful self delusion, notions of e,. ah, that's very interesting. If you can train people to think of themselves as lucky, they actually get a benefit from engaging in those kind of opportunistic behaviours. Doctor mike ekin, a psychologist, also from cambridge university, i think if we tend to believe that we could be fortunate and we focus on the upside, then that allows us, in a relatively benign environment, to take age of opportunities which we might otherwise miss. We do tend to suffer from that illusion, the idea that we are currently

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