🧚♀️ TREE 360: The annoying science of luck
The boring ol’ materialist’s guide to manifesting, part 7 of 10
One.
I am going to share one of the most annoying scientific discoveries ever. Here it is:
People who believe they are lucky
are objectively more lucky
than people who believe they are unlucky.1
That annoys me a lot
because
It’s not fair and
How are you supposed to make yourself believe you’re lucky?
If this was the sparkly guide to manifesting, I would tell you to take your best glitter pen, write “I am lucky” on your unicorn note paper and stick it on your bathroom mirror. I would tell you to say aloud “I am lucky” 22 times every day. (22 is a power number.)
This isn’t the sparkly guide though. This is the boring ol’ unsparkly materialist’s guide.
I don’t think you have direct access to your beliefs
but I can get you in the side door.
It’s the one with the sign that says Gratitude.
Gratitude is an action.
You choose something about your life and you say thank you for it. You think of how someone has benefitted your life and you tell them thank you.
Here’s the cool part:
Because gratitude is an action, you don’t have to feel grateful. You don’t have to believe anything. You just do it. You say thank you. You make a habit of expressing specific gratitude for what you have been given.
In time,
doing gratitude will lead to
feeling gratitude.
Feeling grateful
is basically the same thing
as believing
you are lucky.
Now the science is on your side.
The boring ol’ materialist’s guide to manifesting
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Three.
We seem to be doing rock this week. Here’s the opener to Travis’ inexplicably underrated Ode to J. Smith.
Grow in gratitude
Jeff
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Hi Jeff. I love how you link gratitude to developing luck. There have been so many studies done about how gratitude can have a positive effect on peoples health. I once heard this great thing - if you don't know how to pray, or what to pray for, just say "Thank you."
I feel both unlucky and full of gratitude--yes, somehow those two fit together for me. Or "in" me, I should say. So I doubly appreciate this piece, as one can now substitute--elbow out--the other! Thank you!