Working Hard with Grace Beverley
Aug 2, 2026 · 17 min · 8 segments
Today we're unpacking the idea of getting out of your own way and noticing when we're the ones doing the waiting, and figuring out how to stand somewhere that luck can actually find us. \+ SIGN UP…
Grace BeverleyHost
[upbeat music] We're all often told that the best things in life are supposed to find us, the right job, the right opportunity, the right relationship.
I think the reality of this is that something can't find you if you are not in the right place to be found.
And I believe that two things can exist at the same time, trusting in universal timing and actively engineering how luck shows up in your life, and the luck that you want to garner, the lifestyle you want to live.
There's something someone else would consider lucky and consider amazing, which might be something that you might not consider super lucky.
In fact, psychologist Richard Wiseman, who wrote the book The Luck Factor and spent over a decade studying lucky and unlucky people, found that 80% of those who described themselves lucky changed their lives for the better within a month just by changing their behavior in a few very small ways.
They're open to new experiences, and because of that, they are constantly in the path of interesting possibilities.
In fact, almost 90% of the people he studied who described themselves as lucky said that they trusted their intuition in personal relationships, and nearly 80% said it also played a vital role in their career decisions as well.
He found that lucky people genuinely expect good things to happen, which means they try more things.
They push through setbacks, and they persist when unlucky people are more likely to give up.
And then finally, when things do go wrong, lucky people handle it- ... differently.
He was actually able to make self-described unlucky people luckier by having them practice these four things, which makes all of this incredibly actionable and something that you can actually learn from, even if maybe you are more naturally a glass half empty person.
Because there will be elements of luck and privilege in all of this that will have led to us believing our lives are a certain way as well.
[upbeat music] We're all often told that the best things in life are supposed to find us, the right job, the right opportunity, the right relationship.
I think the reality of this is that something can't find you if you are not in the right place to be found.
And I believe that two things can exist at the same time, trusting in universal timing and actively engineering how luck shows up in your life, and the luck that you want to garner, the lifestyle you want to live.
There's something someone else would consider lucky and consider amazing, which might be something that you might not consider super lucky.
In fact, psychologist Richard Wiseman, who wrote the book The Luck Factor and spent over a decade studying lucky and unlucky people, found that 80% of those who described themselves lucky changed their lives for the better within a month just by changing their behavior in a few very small ways.
They're open to new experiences, and because of that, they are constantly in the path of interesting possibilities.
In fact, almost 90% of the people he studied who described themselves as lucky said that they trusted their intuition in personal relationships, and nearly 80% said it also played a vital role in their career decisions as well.
He found that lucky people genuinely expect good things to happen, which means they try more things.
They push through setbacks, and they persist when unlucky people are more likely to give up.
And then finally, when things do go wrong, lucky people handle it- ... differently.
He was actually able to make self-described unlucky people luckier by having them practice these four things, which makes all of this incredibly actionable and something that you can actually learn from, even if maybe you are more naturally a glass half empty person.
Because there will be elements of luck and privilege in all of this that will have led to us believing our lives are a certain way as well.
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