🦄 The annoying science of luck

Book of TREE 3.22: manifesting for materialists 7/10

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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.

That annoys me a lot
because

1. It’s not fair and

2. 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” 111 times every day. (111 is an angel 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.

Thomas Keller’s chat with Carmen in The Bear S3E10 inspired me. My new life goal is to grow up and become Thomas Keller in this scene. (Except for being a chef. I have a degree in culinary arts and I know with every atom in my body that the hospitality industry is not my place in this world.)

Grow slowly
Jeff