Dr. Richard Wiseman loved performing magic as a child, and turned that passion, which demanded a keen insight into people's reactions to be able to fool them into believing the magic tricks, into a more adult role as a psychologist.Once, he was demonstrating a magic trick in front of an audience as part of a professional speech, and was intrigued by a woman who was totally unsurprised that his trick had worked - not because she saw through his sleight-of-hand, but because she was always lucky. Therefore, making the right choice had nothing to do with the way the trick worked, but with her own innate luck.
Dr. Wiseman decided to investigate the phenomenon of luck, and to study what makes some people lucky and others unlucky. The Luck Factor is the result of that research.
You Aren't Born Lucky
One of the first things that Dr. Wiseman wanted to test was whether luck was an innate trait - in other words, whether some people are just "born lucky."To test this theory, Dr. Wiseman polled a large number of people who considered themselves either lucky or unlucky, and who were planning on playing the lottery. If luck was an innate talent, then the lucky people should win more often.
The results, however, showed that luck is not a natural trait. Only a very few people who played the lottery won any money at all, and those few were evenly split between lucky and unlucky people.
So if being lucky isn't inherited... where does it come from?
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