The Neuroscience of the Unexplained
The Neuroscience of Luck
Attentional bias, self-fulfilling prophecy, counterfactual thinking and Richard Wiseman's research: why lucky people genuinely behave differently and what that tells us about the brain
956-word article with 10 Harvard references.
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Luck is not a force, a field, or a cosmic allocation system. But lucky people exist, and they behave in measurably different ways from unlucky people. Richard Wiseman's decade of research demonstrates that self-identified lucky individuals are more open to unexpected opportunities, more resilient to setbacks, and more likely to create the conditions under which favourable outcomes become probable. This article examines the neuroscience of attention, expectation, counterfactual thinking and self-fulfilling prophecy to explain what luck actually is.
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