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glynnis:

“And so it is with luck - unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and as a result miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. My research revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four basic principles. They 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.”

— Be lucky - it’s an easy skill to learn - Telegraph (via amber-rae, msg, ronenreblogs & ericlodwick)

Luck is what you make out of it. Or something like that.

I got a friend in Paris, and the other day, while I was in Shanghai, I was telling her about the buildings, the fog, the people in the street and everything, and she told me I was so lucky. Lucky to travel around the world?

I dunno if I consider it luck. From my point of view, I had a little bit of money and a dream, and, well, just a job and lots of friends in Paris. The job I could quit, and my friends I could Internet, so yeah, I created the occasion to go wander the globe.

I guess I opened my mind to the occasion :)

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