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Sep 14, 2026
Brian ScottHOST
You inherited the aperture of the people who raised you, of course, along with their assumptions about what a person of your kind can perceive.
Brian ScottHOST
And one further mechanism closes it, which the psychologist Richard Wiseman spent a decade documenting in his research on luck.
Brian ScottHOST
Anxiety narrows attention.
Brian ScottHOST
Somebody focused hard on a single objective loses the capacity to perceive anything outside it, and the harder the focus, the smaller the field becomes.
Vanessa Van EdwardsGUEST
And so the first habit that charismatic people do is they embrace their imperfections.
Vanessa Van EdwardsGUEST
So this was done with a study by psychologist Richard Wiseman, and he wanted to see could vulnerability really make you more likable? So he had two actresses sell a blender in a mall.
Vanessa Van EdwardsGUEST
One actress had the perfect pitch.
Vanessa Van EdwardsGUEST
The other actress had the same pitch, but she spilled the smoothie from the blender all over the table.
Scott AdamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And...
Scott AdamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And then there's what I call the Dr. Richard Wiseman view of things, which I learned a few years ago.
Scott AdamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So Dr. Richard Wiseman did some trials, some tests on people, and determined, or at least this is his hypothesis, is that the people who could be trained to expect luck actually noticed more opportunities.
Scott AdamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So expecting luck tunes your brain to spot lock.
Scott AdamsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Now, I'm shortening and summarizing and paraphrasing his body of work, so I may be missing some nuance.
Richard HemmingGUEST
But far more important than that, I think, for the appreciation and culture of wine, but also for the sort of wellbeing of us, the people that love it and drink it, is that community the way it brings people together the way that a shared bottle or a shared bag in box can facilitate discussion you know lubricate social events bring people together um and i think that's one of the things that wine has a certain magic about it this the way that it can bind people and that's been true for millennia you know wine has been used that way as a social tool and look that's nothing new obviously but I think that's a really exciting part of the wine industry that maybe gets overlooked.
Victoria WilkinHOST
So can we learn something from the lucky amongst us? And are the lucky ones more able to manage their own climate change emotions better than the ones who think they are unlucky? So if we want to become luckier, how do we go about doing this? According to Richard Wiseman, one of the ways is by creating and noticing opportunities and to do that we have to be really good at noticing our environment, saying hello to people, striking up conversations, being curious, asking questions.
Richard HemmingGUEST
I feel like maybe there's a more pragmatic answer to that question, like what are the latest innovations that are happening? You know, is it interesting zero percent products? Is it something to do with packaging? Is it the latest vintage from some new region? Look, all of those things are happening and they will continually happen.
Victoria WilkinHOST
The second way in which we can get lucky is to actually listen to our own intuition.
Richard SaundersHOST
Barry Williams writes, In 2000, Australian sceptics celebrated 20 years of existence, as well as the last year of the 20th century, although some of the ill-informed dispute this, and hosted the Third World Sceptics Convention.
Richard SaundersHOST
That was a memorable time, and that's where I met Richard Wiseman for the first time and Steve Turbo, otherwise known as Bob Steiner, and had dinner with James Randi.
Richard SaundersHOST
So a very memorable convention.
Richard SaundersHOST
Barry Williams continues here.
Melissa MaffeoGUEST
And we've seen that in many, many studies.
Melissa MaffeoGUEST
There are a couple of famous studies that were done a couple of decades ago by Richard Wiseman's group where they set up fake seances.
Melissa MaffeoGUEST
They would have objects move like there was a candelabra on the table that was rigged up to a string that no one could see that they would kind of pull across the table.
Melissa MaffeoGUEST
And sometimes Dr. Wiseman would suggest to the participants that the table that they were sitting at was actually levitating.
Denise Duffield-ThomasHOST
So of course, the same things keep happening again and again and again.
Denise Duffield-ThomasHOST
And it's not bad luck, right? But There's a book called The Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman, and he talks about this study that he did around luck.
Denise Duffield-ThomasHOST
And he put an advert in the paper and it's like, are you a lucky person? Are you an unlucky person? You know, come and do this study.
Denise Duffield-ThomasHOST
And what they did was they hid money out the front of where people were coming to get tested and to do these questionnaires.
Denise Duffield-ThomasHOST
Because it doesn't.
Denise Duffield-ThomasHOST
Because you don't put yourself forward.
Denise Duffield-ThomasHOST
And that's what Richard Wiseman found.
Denise Duffield-ThomasHOST
It's a great book, The Luck Factor, is that people who self-identified as lucky are they put themselves forward for things.
Tom EmeryGUEST
And then my favourite book for life is probably a less well-known book, which is called The Look Factor.
Tom EmeryGUEST
And it's by a guy called Dr. Richard Wiseman.
Tom EmeryGUEST
He's a British guy.
Tom EmeryGUEST
He wrote it about 20 years ago.
Michael Aron FlickerHOST
I'm Michael Aaron Flicker.
Michael Aron FlickerHOST
And I'm Richard Shelton.
Michael Aron FlickerHOST
And today we're sitting with Andy Niren, brand strategist, author of Go Luck Yourself, and founder of the Lucky Generals.
Michael Aron FlickerHOST
Let's get into it.
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Michael Aron FlickerHOST
I have not met a client yet that did not ask for that.
Michael Aron FlickerHOST
And yet, as you say, Andy, the incentive structures are often the exact opposite of that, which creates this tension.
Michael Aron FlickerHOST
And as Richard said, this human insight that, man, it happens so quick.
Michael Aron FlickerHOST
Are we sure that's the best answer? There's a little bit of doubt when you hear, Arthur Brooks calls it, crystallized intelligence.
Alex TsakirisGUEST
Listen, uh, median time of the, you know, total d- time the dog want." And then Dr.
Alex TsakirisGUEST
Richard Wiseman from the UK, the skeptic, you know, back to the skeptics.
Alex TsakirisGUEST
Man, I almost, I miss the skeptics.
Alex TsakirisGUEST
At least they somewhat engaged in like... [laughs]
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