
The Luck Factor
Book by Richard Wiseman
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Sep 3, 2026
Why do bad things keep happening to me
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6:57Denise Duffield-ThomasHOST
So of course, the same things keep happening again and again and again.
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7:02Denise 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.
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7:14Denise 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.
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7:21Denise 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.
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9:55Denise Duffield-ThomasHOST
Because you don't put yourself forward.
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9:57Denise Duffield-ThomasHOST
And that's what Richard Wiseman found.
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9:59Denise 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.
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10:07Denise Duffield-ThomasHOST
They make themselves available for luck to happen.