
There’s this study that’s been fascinating me for years. Called “The Luck Factor,” it was conducted by a British researcher by the name of Richard Wiseman.
During this study, Wiseman proposed a simple task: he gave people a newspaper and asked them to count the number of images it contained.
There were two groups of people, those who considered themselves to be lucky and, you guessed it, unlucky.
The “lucky” took only a few seconds to count the images contained by the newspaper, while the unlucky… it took them a few minutes at least.
Why?
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