How lucky do you want to be?

However sometimes luck gets some bad press; ‘he just got lucky’ implies that success was purely chance. “First you’ve got to be good, but then you’ve got to be lucky” suggests that luck is just the icing on the cake on something that is already not bad. But how about Tennessee Williams quote “luck is believing that you are lucky”. Now this is intriguing: if you combine this with the concept of free will – that we all have the capacity to choose how and what believe – then we all have the capacity to choose to be lucky. Recent scientific research by Dr Robert Wiseman, published in his bo...