Luck
Do you consider yourself "lucky" or "unlucky" or neither? Well, psychological researchers got two groups of people, a lucky group and an unlucky group. Each group was asked to skim through a magazine and count the number of pictures in a magazine. However, on one page of the magazine, about a third of the way through, one of the pictures had the following printed on it. "Stop counting now there are 67 pictures."
The results were quite interesting. People in the lucky group found the picture and stopped counting. Those in the unlucky group didn't. The results, in my opinion, prove even more how your beliefs shape your experience of reality.
Comments
This is indeed very interesting. Many thanks for this inspiring posting.
Posted by: Thamir Alhashemi | August 27, 2006 02:06 PM
I need some clarification: those in the unlucky group did NOT find the "stop counting" picture, or DID find the picture and did NOT stop counting?
Posted by: Andrew Ittner | August 29, 2006 06:39 PM
I think I am lucky to have found this web site, therefore I am. I think I'll stop counting.
Posted by: William Bowers | September 8, 2006 04:57 PM
Funny. I think I got to where I am because of hard work, not luck and who knows, maybe I'd keep counting. Does rather confirm my suspicion that people who think they're lucky are slackers :)
Posted by: Tyro | September 14, 2006 06:13 PM