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Psychology of Luck. Made by: Erika Aidukaitė PSbns1-01. Content. Introduction The Luck Factor Maximise Chance Opportunities Listening to Lucky Hunches Expect Good Fortune Turn Bad to Good Reasons why people are unlucky Conclusions References. Introduction.
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Psychology of Luck Made by: Erika Aidukaitė PSbns1-01
Content • Introduction • The Luck Factor • Maximise Chance Opportunities • Listening to Lucky Hunches • Expect Good Fortune • Turn Bad to Good • Reasons why people are unlucky • Conclusions • References
Introduction • Psychology of luck is very arguable theme nowadays. • What luck depends on? • It is important to know: • Why some people are called accident-prone and others just lucky guys? • How to create your own luck? Superstitious beliefs – prietarai Accident-prone – traukiantis nelaimes
The Luck Factor • The four principles to become lucky: • Maximise Chance Opportunities • Listening to Lucky Hunches • Expect Good Fortune • Turn Bad Luck to Good Hunch – nuojauta, įtarimas Richard Wiseman
Maximise Chance Opportunities • Wiseman’s experiment with people who call themselves lucky and unlucky. • Lucky people score higher on the personality factor of extraversion and in openness. • Lucky people score lower in neuroticism. • Lucky people keep in touch with large groups of friends and acquaintances. acquaintances - pažįstami
Listening to Lucky Hunches • Effective decisions by listening to intuition and gut feelings. • Take steps to boost your intuitive abilities: • Meditate • Clear mind from other thoughts Gut feelings – instinktai Boost – paskatinti
Expect Good Fortune • Lucky people are certain that the future is going to be full of fortune. • Self-fullfilling prophecies by helping lucky people persist in the face of failure. prophecies - pranašystės
Turn Bad Luck to Good • “Counter-factual” – ability to imagine what might have happened, rather than what actually did happen. • Take control of situation. • Lucky people employ various psychological techniques to cope with, and often even thrive upon, the ill fortune that comes their way. Thrive upon - apsidžiaugti
Reasons why people are unlucky • Some personality traits depend on the month of birth. • Lack of self-esteem. • Superstitious beliefs. • Focusing on one subject. Self-esteem – pasitikėjimas savimi Personality traits – asmenybės bruožai Superstitious beliefs - prietarai
Conclusions • Everyone can create his/her own luck. • A person chooses his/her path of life. • There are no superstitions working! • The only one thing that affects person’s is his/her vision to life.
References Literature: • http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/The_Luck_Factor.pdf (watched 2012.03.03.) • http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201005/make-your-own-luck (watched 2012.03.03.) • http://www.richardwiseman.com/research/psychologyluck.html (watched 2012.03.03.) Pictures: • http://7experts.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-find-thin-content-on-yours-site.html (watched 2012.03.03) • http://vasichka.deviantart.com/art/Introduction-154631532 (watched 2012.03.03) • http://www.rationalistinternational.net/associates/r_wiseman.htm (watched 2012.03.03) • http://searchforfriendsonfacebook.com/search-for-friends-on-facebook-a-clever-trick/ (watched 2012.03.03) • http://imo.thejakartapost.com/anyil/2012/02/23/reveal-the-science-of-luck-how-to-make-our-own-good-fortune/ (watched 2012.03.03) • http://www.parents.com/baby/shower/themes/good-fortune-baby-shower/ (watched 2012.03.03) • http://blog.bigquizthing.com/2010_12_01_archive.html (watched 2012.03.03) • http://hcprojectjournal.blogspot.com/2012/01/think-about-yourself.html (watched 2012.03.03) • http://randomyesusefulno.com/post/193702245/a-cat-and-a-lollipop-via-the-world-according-to (watched 2012.03.03)