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How to Get Luckier
GQA conversation with psychology professor Barbara Blatchley about luck—and how changes to your mindset might get you a little more of it.
The Unreality of Luck
AeonOptimists believe in good luck, pessimists in bad. But if it’s all a matter of perspective, does luck even exist?
The Strange Power of Unlucky Charms
The CutLucky charms can have real, measurable effects — past research has shown, for example, that people perform better at golf if they believe they’re using a lucky ball — but unlucky things have their own kind of power.
Luck Plays a Bigger Role in Some Sports Than Others — How Come?
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe main thing that damps down the role of luck is repetition, statisticians say.
The Role of Luck in Life Success Is Far Greater Than We Realized
Scientific AmericanAre the most successful people in society just the luckiest people?
How Designers Engineer Luck Into Video Games
NautilusAnd how casinos’ ”luck ambassadors“ keep you spending.
The Hard Truth Of Poker — And Life: You’re Never ‘Due’ For Good Cards
FiveThirtyEightMaria Konnikova decided to learn how to play poker to better understand the role of luck in our lives, examining the game through the lens of psychology and human behavior.
The Radical Moral Implications of Luck in Human Life
VoxAcknowledging the role of luck is the secular equivalent of religious awakening.
Fortune’s Wheel
Lapham's QuarterlyFor many in Western history, games of chance represented a portal of possibility, not a heresy to be demonized or a statistical probability to be managed.