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Further, those who consider themselves lucky pay attention to their gut feelings. ey act on their hunches, and boost their intuitions by clearing their minds of distractions.
Lemons from Lemonade
Lucky people tend to see that what looks like a run of bad luck is something that they can learn from, deal with, and even gain from. ey are able to make lemonade from the lemons, and they don’t see themselves as helpless. ey get to work to take charge of the situation they nd themselves in.
So how can we apply these luck factors to our gaming experiences? We can recognize that luck is what we think about it, and what we make it. We can walk into the casino with an upbeat, positive, winning attitude. We can be open to experiences, and be relaxed enough about them to pay attention to everything that may present itself as an opportunity. As one man who had won a number of contests said,“You’ve got to be in to win.”
What About Chance?
Dr. Wiseman says that there's a di erence between chance and luck. Chance events, like winning the lottery, are situations in which we have no control, other than buying a ticket. As a rule, they don't happen again and again to
the same person. People who consistently experience good luck do so because of what they are doing. ey create their good fortune, in other words. Chance plays a much smaller part in our lives than the things we think and do to create and attract good fortune. According to the hundreds of lucky people Dr. Wiseman interviewed, being in the right place at the right time is all about being in the right frame of mind.
It also means being open to the possibility that we won’t always win, but being willing to try again. And listening to our intuition and gut feelings, and knowing when to hold them and when to fold them. Finally, it means looking at every visit to the casino as giving value to us. At the end of our experience, we should be able to total up the positives, all the enjoyable encounters, events, the large and not so large wins, and the fun that we have had. Each time we do that, we are adding to the occurrences of good luck in our lives, and soon we’re not
only seeing ourselves as lucky people, we are
lucky people!
Anna Tennant has played slots in San Diego County, Monte Carlo, Germany, France, Portugal, New England, and Las Vegas, and believes she is very lucky.
June 2007
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