🌵 TREE 104: You create your reality
A thing about reality is that you are not a mere observer. You are part of it. You help shape it. The way you interpret reality defines your experience of it.
One of the ways this actually, factually works has to do with luck. If you believe you are a lucky person, you will experience more good luck than if you believe you are an unlucky person. It’s true. Proper experiments have been done.
Some people explain this by saying:
their belief causes the good luck to manifest
they are blessed because of their faith
their belief that they are lucky causes them to be more aware of and open to the opportunities that exist around them
It doesn’t really matter what you think the mechanism is. It works. Believing you are lucky makes you more lucky.
Disclaimers: As a person who thinks the third explanation is the most reasonable, I recommend that you think about being lucky as a habitual way of living, not a one-off piece of magic. I predict you will be terribly disappointed and poorer if you use believing-in-luck on gambling or anything else where you have no influence.
Get lucky slowly.
Jeff
Not Kylie, not Ace of Base, not Britney, not Radiohead, very nearly Lana del Rey, not Daft Punk:
Every song from every past email:
How to be lucky: https://nautil.us/issue/44/luck/how-to-be-lucky
I go for a run every morning nowadays - and I now realise that the reason I don't run in dog turds everyday is because I am very lucky. I am acutely aware of all the possiblities for avoiding turdification and actively practice avoidance and..so far so good. I spend more time not running in turds than in them so....(I think I'm getting this....?!)