Why Do Lucky People Have Good Luck? [Part 2] — How Perception Gradually Changes the World

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Hello everyone. This is Akira.

In the first half, we saw how the nature of luck is deeply connected to “our way of perceiving things.”

Now, let’s dig a little deeper.

What kind of attitude do lucky people have in their relationships with others?

In a survey by President Mook, when asked “What do you keep in mind to improve your luck?”, people who answered “I am lucky” showed a higher awareness of items such as “improving my relationship with my spouse” and “improving relationships at work.”

Here, let’s recall the words of the philosopher Martin Buber.

He said that there are two ways of relating to others.

The “I-It” relationship, where the other person is treated as an object, and the “I-Thou” relationship, where one faces the other as a “you.”

It seems that people who feel lucky try to cherish the latter “I-Thou” relationship.

Not calculation or gain and loss, but an attitude of simply affirming the other person’s existence.

This attitude may quietly create trust around them, and as a result, attract encounters and opportunities that can be called “messengers of good fortune.”

However, no matter how much we value relationships, there are times when unavoidable misfortune visits our lives.

Here, another big difference emerges.

It is how we interpret misfortune.

People who feel unlucky tend to keep chasing the cause with “Why only me?” when misfortune strikes.

On the other hand, people who feel lucky tend to reinterpret what happened relatively quickly as “This might be a lesson for the next step” or “It was good that it ended at this level.”

The 16th-century thinker Machiavelli compared fate to a “raging river.”

We cannot completely stop the flood, but by building dikes in advance, humans can reduce the damage and sometimes turn the water into a blessing — that is what he thought.

The attitude Nietzsche called “Amor Fati (love of fate)” seems to point to something similar.

Rather than simply lamenting the given fate, the posture of accepting it as nourishment for one’s growth and trying to love it.

Doesn’t that posture generate the power to take action again?

Furthermore, in the President Mook survey, there was a clear difference in the words that unconsciously come out at moments of crisis.

People who feel lucky tend to repeat positive words in their minds such as:

“It will definitely go well”

“A crisis is an opportunity”

“It will turn out as it should”

Words are not just sounds.

Depending on how we speak about the world, our brain state and choice of actions quietly change.

This makes us realize that again.

Here, let’s pause for a moment and ask ourselves.

What words do you say to yourself when you are in trouble or in a crisis?

If you wish to “improve your luck,” you may not need to do anything special.

Just pay a little attention to your way of perceiving things, treat relationships with those around you carefully, and try to reinterpret what happened with slightly kinder eyes.

Those small accumulations may unknowingly create the state of being called “a lucky person.”

How do you see the world right now?

And what words do you say to yourself?

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