How to Get Lucky?

Self-fulfilling prophecy: Believe that you are lucky, and you will be lucky because you will be more willing to explore opportunities, accept challenges, and persevere; rather than just feeling happy about good outcomes.

Lucky people have three personality traits:

1. Extroverted
2. Open-minded
3. Relaxed (low neuroticism)

How to create good luck?

1. Participate in new activities and experience new things
2. Trust your intuition and interests
3. Be optimistic, when playing soccer, take a few more shots, and you'll eventually score
4. Be good at finding the silver lining in bad situations

What is the essence of good luck?

Creating opportunities, discovering opportunities, and having the courage to act

What does this have to do with mindfulness?

Mindfulness = stepping out of your subjective perspective and noticing the value of things around you

Buddhist perspective:

• We oppose the "law of attraction" because fantasizing about good outcomes is actually a form of "greed."
• We advocate for a systematic approach to probability, which is essentially "form is emptiness."
• We encourage discovering good luck outside of routine tasks, which actually avoids "delusion."
• We use holistic thinking to break normalizing biases, which is practicing "no-self."
• So who says Buddhism is useless? If you truly excel in Buddhism, you wouldn't need to seek the Buddha for trivial matters like promotion and fortune.