Scott Adams
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328 recordings
6 series
first heard Nov 2024
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Scott Adams’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Everybody has exactly the same luck.
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But he did this experiment that was very revealing.
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He had people divide themselves into groups that considered themselves lucky and groups that considered themselves not lucky.
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and he gave them all the same newspaper and he said, Look through the newspaper and count up the number of photographs.
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Now the people who considered themselves unlucky
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Counted them up and on average they got the right number that was forty two.
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and it took them several minutes to complete the task.
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The people who considered themselves lucky, even though really nobody was any luckier than anybody else, but they considered themselves lucky
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They also got the right number on average, forty two photographs, but they were done in seconds.
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Whereas the the people who thought they were unlucky, it took them minutes.
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The difference was that on all the newspapers for both groups and the second page in big writing is said
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Uh stop counting the photographs, there are forty two.
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The people who considered themselves unlucky didn't see
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The time saver.
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They didn't expect anything to be there except what they were looking for.
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The people who would consider themselves lucky are always looking for luck.
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So h what he found is that if you if you open your mind to the possibility that you could get lucky, you actually will notice things that will make you appear lucky.
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And if you ask people about uh their success stories, drill down a little bit.
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If you know anybody who got successful in a in an outsized way, you're gonna find this point where they noticed something or there seemed to be some kind of a luck or coincidence, but if you drill down, maybe they were just tuning themselves to notice it.
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You know, maybe they just set their filters and uh
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