Nir Eyal

People who believed they were lucky, it took them about 11 seconds.

People who believed they were unlucky, took them two and a half minutes.

Why the gap?

The gap occurred because on page two of this newspaper, one of the pictures, one of the images that they were counting, said there are 48 images in this newspaper.

Collect your prize.

The people who saw themselves as lucky saw that opportunity.

They could read the image because they were seeing something that the unlucky people couldn't imagine existed.

They couldn't see it.

It was right there in front of them, but just like you can't imagine that the surgeon was the boy's mom, people...

couldn't see what was right in front of them, the same exact image the unlucky people couldn't see.

And it took them two and a half minutes versus 11 seconds.

This is exactly what happens to us every day.

Because if you believe opportunities won't happen to you, if you believe they will happen to you, you're right.

You see reality differently.

And so we have to institute these practices, and there's a few that we can all implement, that force us to provoke luck.

That in fact, luck isn't chance.

It's something we manufacture for ourselves.

Okay, so the first thing you can do is to show extreme amounts of gratitude.

extreme amounts of gratitude.

So this comes from Tina Seelig at Stanford.