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Toggle0. Get Luckier
Any human life is highly dependent on luck. While the life is never completely dependent on luck, we eventually have to admit the fact that luck always plays a role bigger than we want it to. In this post, I am outlining three easy-to-practice tips that will help you get luckier.
1. Live In The Present Moment
This is the first tip, not because it is superior to most other tips, but because not following the first tip drastically lowers both productivity and efficiency. Human beings are not born to do multi-tasking. Human consciousness is quite limited in its capacity to perform multiple tasks simultaneously and therefore, it is better to not do so.
Moreover, one of the hardest problems that people often encounter in their lives is the habit of incessant worrying. Fortunately, no worrying occurs if you just live in the present moment and accepts everything that happens to you. While this is the ultimate solution, it may be difficult to practice it in real life. Since every individual is unique, the only way to find the method that works best for you is to go through multiple trials and errors.
2. Only Do What You Can or Must Do
This also is a very important tip. It is never a good idea to try to do something that you can’t do. If you’re not sure if you can’t do something or not, you should first give a try and calculate the feasibility of success. If you face the conclusion that the possibility for success is 0%, you should just give up and find other things to do.
This tip is also useful for people who often find themselves incessantly worrying or excessively pessimistic. Human beings have limited capacities. Yes, this is the most important fact that all human beings should accept. We may get worried about a meteor hitting the Earth… but the problem is, if we do not possess the capacities necessary to stop the meteor from crashing into the Earth, we should just give up and live to the fullest until the moment of the end. If it is possible to stop the meteor, great! Then we should put maximum effort into stopping the meteor.
No human being is fully capable of only having good thoughts, only enjoying pleasure and controlling everything around them… Therefore, any such unrealistic aim should be given up. In essence, we should only work on things that we can or must do, and ignore everything that we have no control over.
3. Be a Nice Person
This is not about morality or politeness. The Earth is basically a community composed of over 8 billion people, and the degree of interconnectedness between this massive number of people is sheerly immense. Therefore, it is always a good bet to do something nice, so that you may get either expected or unexpected return in the future.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that doing nice things will always get you good results and doing bad things will always get you bad results. Human life is short, so it is always possible that the return is not given appropriately and fairly. However, life, at the same time, is a possibility game and since doing nice things improves the possibility of getting better results, it would always be a wise choice to do so.