The psychological trait of openness is often associated with creativity. Creating something from nothing seems very lucky indeed.
The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind
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#82Isn't openness part of the big five (OCEAN) that can't be changed much later in life? You only become less and less open later in life.
This is different, it's not about bring conceptually open and interested in new ideas, its about openennes of attention.
Really? I saw a few psychologist talk about creativity and they said it was about openness (O in OCEAN) and intelligence.
So it seemed to me that this openness was in fact about being conceptually open to new ideas
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#83I remember a book I read years ago called The Luck Factor. It is a pop psychology book, and outlines the principles of luck and goes in-depth about it. I internalized most of the principles a little bit. One time I was in London and lost my bus ticket to Amsterdam. I really needed some luck. So I asked myself "what would the author of the book do?" I sought out the highest manager I could find, which eventually was t…
Richard Wiseman, mentioned in the article, wrote that book.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Wikipedia page for the eight-circuit model of consciousness explained what it was pretty well but presented no evidence or arguments in favor of it. Do you know of any sources that that give such arguments? I am also curious as to how state of the art physics fits into the rest of your list. I assume it's related to the eight-circuit model and opening yourself up to the possibility that there is more to the unive…
Like most things that involve consciousness, the evidence is personal and experiential (Which is why people use the term psuedo-science for much of the information in this domain. Ironically, I now use that label as a signal for further research as opposed to something that I would reject out of hand). In my case, when I found the 8-circuit model, it was the best framework that I had found to explain the changes to m…
I agree that models based on personal experiences can be helpful. The first five circuits in the eight-circuit model seem to be pretty standard psychological/philosophical thought to me, although I am not really trained in either of those disciplines.
However, things kind of go off the rails when the sixth circuit directly claims that LSD enables telepathic communication. At this point the map enters the territory of things that are scientifically testable and as far as I know, telepathy has been tested many times and never proven.
Circuit eight is similar with it's claims of non-local awareness at the human conciousness level.
I am in favor of relaxing the assumption that everything has been figured out but this model instead appears to be throwing out the scientific method. I understand that it's a map used to describe the territory of consciousness but I don't see how it's a very useful map unless you're already assuming that consciousness is not 100% in the physical brain.
Such an assumption runs counter to the current (majority) scientific thought which, as you say, is not necessarily a bad thing. However, without any evidence presented that give reason to think the assumption might be true, I see no reason to follow this model more than I see a reason to follow a model that says God created the universe in seven days or that a race of sentient super-intelligent Beavers chewed the universe out of the fabric of the space time continuum.
Re: The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind
#85I'm skeptical of a definition of luck where you can be trained to be lucky. That's not luck, that's skill. There is no skill to luck by definition. But let's take what we've got here and engage with it: >She came up with a few basic strategies for parents to teach their kids, including being open to new experiences, learning to relax, maintaining social connections, and (yes) talking to strangers. All of these techni…
You're not really arguing with the original article, which is talking about perceived or perhaps realized luck. You're talking about the absolute or objective amount of luck which a person has. What the original article is really saying, isn't that you can train yourself to have the kind of luck that causes people to be born with a silver spoon in their mouths; rather, that you can become subjectively luckier by learning (i.e. a skill) to eliminate the mental barriers which cause you to underappreciate or underperceive the amount of absolute/objective luck which you have to work with.
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
But that's what I'm saying in my comment, I even directly address the issue of hard work. To be a hard worker implies all sorts of luck on its own. If you're a hard worker you've probably grown up in an environment where either the value of hard work was present and its importance was impressed on you explicitly or you've learned implicitly by having contact with hard workers and contact with not hard workers where t…
It's more like "Seek and you shall find". Or "the last place you look is the first place you find." You might be lucky enough to be born on top of a geyser of bubbling crude. If not, you need to go prospecting, not sit and wait for it to come to you.
This type of "seeking" behavior is easier to justify when you can afford to take more risks. Consider the stock market adage "Never invest what you can't afford to lose."
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#87Most wanted hackernews feature: auto hide all stories from certain domains
nautil.us and aeon.co are the two that commenters tend not to like, right?
anyways it would probably be pretty easy to write a browser extension to do this for you. you could even make a show HN when you're done! :)
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#88I'm skeptical of a definition of luck where you can be trained to be lucky. That's not luck, that's skill. There is no skill to luck by definition. But let's take what we've got here and engage with it: >She came up with a few basic strategies for parents to teach their kids, including being open to new experiences, learning to relax, maintaining social connections, and (yes) talking to strangers. All of these techni…
I think a more reasonable takeaway is despite your upstream odds, being more open to things increases the number of trials you expose yourself to which increases the chance you realize your underlying odds in the first place.
So there’s a balance, and at extremes, a well-off person can sabotage themselves by not trying, while an entirely disenfranchised person will be screwed no matter how hard he tries.
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#89I'm skeptical of a definition of luck where you can be trained to be lucky. That's not luck, that's skill. There is no skill to luck by definition. But let's take what we've got here and engage with it: >She came up with a few basic strategies for parents to teach their kids, including being open to new experiences, learning to relax, maintaining social connections, and (yes) talking to strangers. All of these techni…
" I'm skeptical of a definition of luck where you can be trained to be lucky. That's not luck, that's skill. There is no skill to luck by definition. " On the other hand, by that definition, no one can be luckier than anyone else. And yet, some people seem to have an easier time navigating reality than others.
You can't inherently be luckier than another person, but you can certainly have a luckier outcome.
Re: The Key to Good Luck Is an Open Mind
#90I remember a book I read years ago called The Luck Factor. It is a pop psychology book, and outlines the principles of luck and goes in-depth about it. I internalized most of the principles a little bit. One time I was in London and lost my bus ticket to Amsterdam. I really needed some luck. So I asked myself "what would the author of the book do?" I sought out the highest manager I could find, which eventually was t…
This talk is in a similar vein:
https://www.ted.com/talks/jia_jiang_what_i_learned_from_100_...