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The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind - Facts So Romantic
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Demystifying the luck skillset has been a personal project of Christine Carter, a sociologist and senior fellow at the Greater Good Science Center, at U.C. Berkeley.Photograph by Zoltán Vörös / FlickrLuck can seem synonymous with randomness. To call someone lucky is usually to deny the relevance of their hard work or talent. As Richard Wiseman, the Professor of Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom, puts it, lucky people “appear to have an uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time and enjoy more than their fair share of lucky breaks.” What do these people have that the rest of us don’t? It turns out “ability” is the key word here. Beyond their level of privilege or the circumstances they were born into, the luckiest (...)

The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind - Facts So Romantic
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Luck can seem synonymous with randomness. To call someone lucky is usually to deny the relevance of their hard work or talent. As Richard Wiseman, the Professor of Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, in the United Kingdom, puts it, lucky people “appear to have an uncanny ability to be in the right place at the right time and enjoy more than their fair share of lucky breaks.” What do these people have that the rest of us don’t? It turns out “ability” is the key word here. Beyond their level of privilege or the circumstances they were born into, the luckiest people may have a specific set of skills that bring chance opportunities their way. Somehow, they’ve learned ways to turn life’s odds in their favor. Demystifying this luck skillset has been a personal (...)

Les secrets des gens les plus chanceux du monde - HuffPost
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La chance n’arrive pas par hasard, estime le professeur de #psychologie Richard Wiseman, auteur du « Facteur chance ». Les chanceux « cueillent le jour » (un événement que vous remettez à plus tard est un événement qui ne se reproduira jamais), se considèrent comme chanceux (et abordent les situations avec plus d’optimisme et d’ouverture), ne confondent pas la chance et le hasard (un hasard défavorable n’est pas malchance : les gens chanceux ne prennent pas en compte ce qui leur arrive de négatif), et (...)

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La blague la plus drôle du monde
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Comme le redécouvrait il y a peu PirateSourcil, l’humour n’est pas toujours compris de la même manière par tous. Ca n’en fait pas pour autant un sujet à prendre à la légère, et c’est d’ailleurs avec le plus grand sérieux que Richard Wiseman, professeur de l’Université d’Hertfordshire, s’est penché...