How to Be Both Lucky and Smart!
Question: Is it better to be lucky than smart?
There’s actually an answer to this question. Stay tuned.
It turns out that after conducting thousands of interviews and hundreds of experiments, Professor Richard Wiseman of England’s University of Hertfordshire has found that answer.
While it’s certainly useful to be smart, it turns out that knowledge isn’t automatically power. It’s potential power. Knowledge is only powerful when you use it and use it properly. But after a decade’s work with his university’s Perrot-Warrick Research Unit, Professor Wiseman has learned that there’s a code that serves as a foundation for luck that one can crack to one’s best advantage, regardless of whether they’re conventionally “smart.”
The studies revealed that luck isn’t due to karma or coincidence. Those that are “lucky” create their good fortune by being open to what’s around them and being ready, willing and able to roll with it, all with the expectation that, sooner or later, an awesome outcome will be on tap.
In an interview with the magazine, Fast Company, Professor Wiseman advised that while people believe that 50% of their life was due to chance events, this is likely to be inaccurate. He added, “Maybe 10% is. The other 40% that you think you’re having no influence over at all is actually defined by the way you think.”
So it’s obvious that being lucky and being smart are not mutually exclusive in nature.
Obviously you don’t require a Ph.D. to be lucky. So how to be smart when it comes to making your own luck?
The most important piece of advice is this: be open to new experiences. One of Professor Wiseman’s experiments found that lucky people always want something new and are prepared to take (calculated) risks and are open-minded enough to see opportunities that exist all around them.
Unlucky people are stuck in routines and want nothing to do with breaking from them. Of course, Albert Einstein once noted that the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Professor Wiseman said to Fast Company, “We are traditionally taught to be really focused, to be really driven, to try really hard at tasks. But in the real world, you’ve got opportunities all around you. And if you’re driven in one direction, you’re not going to spot the others.”
Now…behavior like that may not qualify as insanity, but for sure it’s just not smart. Even if bad things happen to you, there are ways to look around you to find good things to go and manifest.
What can you do today to reverse the curse in your life and get smarter…and luckier…about how you live?
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