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For centuries, people have recognised the power of luck and have done whatever they could to try seizing it To ihvestigate scientifically why some people are consistently lucky and others are not, I advertised in national periodicals for volunteers of both varieties. Four hundred men and women from all walks lifeages eighteen to eighty-four-responded. Over a ten-year period, I interviewed these volunteers, asked them to complete diaries, personality questionnaires and IQ tests, and invited them to my laboratory for experiments. Lucky people, THound, get that way via some basic principles-seizing chance opportunities, creating self-fulfilling prophecies through positive expectations, and adopting a resilient attitude that turns bad luck around. undider chance opportunities. Lucky people regularly have them, unlucky people don't. determine why, I gave lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to tell me how many photographs were inside. On an average, unlucky people spent about two minutes on this rcise: lucky people spent seconds. Why? Because on the paper's second page-in big type-was the message "Stop counting-there are forty-three photographs in this newspaper.' Lucky people ended to spot the message. Unlucky önes did not. l put a second one halfway through the paper- Stop counting, tell the experimenter you have seen this and win $250. Again, the unlucky people missed it. The lesson-unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too busy looking for Something else. Lucky people see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. This is only part of the story. Many of my lucky participants tried hard to add variety to their lives. Before making important decisions, one altered his route to work. Another described a way of meeting people. He noticed that at parties he usually talked to the same type of person. To change this, he thought of a colour and then spoke only to guests wearing that colour-say, women in red, or men in black. Another important principle revolved around the way in which lucky and unlucky people deal with misfortune. Imagine representing your country in the Olympics. You compete, do well, and win a bronze medal. Now, imagine a second Olympics. This time you do even better and win a silver medal. How happy do you think you would feel? Most of us think we would be happier after winning the silver medal. But research suggests athletes who win bronze medals are actually happier. This is because silver medallists think that if they had performed slightly better, they might have won a gold medal. in contrast, bronze medallists focus on how if they had performed slightly worse, they would not won anything. Psychologists call this ability to imagine what might have happened, rather than what actually happened, 'counter-factual' thinking. Finally, I created a series of experiments examining whether thought and behaviour can enhance good fortune. First came one-on-one meetings, during which participants completed questionnaires that measured their luck and their satisfaction with six key areas of their lives. I then outlined the main principles of Nuck, and described techniques designed to help participants react like lucky people. For instance, they were taught how to be more open to opportunities around them, how to break routines, and how to deal with bad luck by imagining things being worse. They were asked to carry out specific exercises for a month and then report back to me.

The results were dramatic. Eighty percent were happier and more satisfied with their lives-and luckier. One unlucky subject said that after adjusting her attitude-expecting good fortune and not dwelling on the negative-her bad luck had vanished. One day, she went shopping and found a book she liked. But she did not buy it, and when she returned to the store in a week, it was gone. Instead of slinking away disappointed, she looked around and found a better book-for less. Events like this made her a much happier person. Her experience shows how thoughts and behaviour affect the good and bad fortune we onee It proves that the most elusive of holy grails-an effective way of taking advantage of the power of luck-is available to us all.