How to get lucky. Mark Morford
Stop walking into walls. Stop missing the opportunity. Stop squashing the blessing, slapping the wink, staining your karma, stepping blindly into traffic or dating endless numbers of loser jerks or ditzy wenches because they never appear exactly as they’re supposed to, and therefore surely the gods of fate, time and love clearly have it in for you, right?
Some things you just sort of know. Some things you get at an automatic, instinctual level, right off the bat, and when someone finally says that thing aloud you sort of go “Well, of course,” while deep inside you’re screaming “Goddammit, why didn’t I think of that, because it makes so much obvious sense?”
Did you know they have performed studies? Tests? Surveys and scientific trials into the idea of luck, into the phenomenon of good fortune both general and specific?
Of course they have. They are trying to answer why some people enjoy endless, seemingly effortless heaps of happy fortuitousness and serendipity, while others – do you know anyone like this? – are in a state of near constant, ass-clenched frustration because the world refuses to obey their narrow and twitchy expectations, and therefore they are always sick, broken, late, damaged, loveless and lost, and nothing good or happy or fortunate ever seems to happen to them. Don’t believe it? Just ask them.
The rest: http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2013/10/08/how-to-get-lucky/
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