Exploring Luck

Recently, I stumbled upon a very interesting article by Richard Wiseman - 'The Luck Factor'. The article describes in detail the result of the ten-year scientific study into the nature of luck. According to the article, the study proves that to a large extent, people make their own good and bad fortune and it is possible to enhance the amount of luck. The article only reinforced my belief that luck is not a paranormal concept and the sayings like "Luck favors the brave" and "A real man makes his own luck" are not mere fancy quotes. Luck is more about noticing chance opportunities and then converting that opportunity into a meaningful venture. In my personal experience I have seen people cribbing about their luck factor and putting all the blame on it for all the failures that they have seen in their life whereas the reason has always been some or other form of incompetent effort or faulty planning. To quote from the article,

"Lucky people are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good"

To share an anecdote, recently two brothers won a prize money of 7 Crore rupees in the popular game show KBC. One can say that it was their luck that they got the chance to be on that show. One can say that it was their luck that they received the questions within the expanse of their knowledge. But how many people know that they have been trying to participate for the last 10 years. How many of us know about the rigorous three-stage process that they had to pass through? It was certainly their perseverance and willingness to take chances that made them lucky.