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The research finding of the day comes courtesy of Eric Barker and Bakadesuyo: “Ed Diener and Martin Seligman screened over 200 undergraduates for levels of happiness, and compared the upper 10% (the “extremely happy”) with the middle and bottom 10%. Extremely happy students experienced no greater number of objectively positive life events, like doing well on … Continue reading Happiness Doesn’t Depend on Events
Harry Potter author JK Rowling provided an excellent illustration of why you always need luck with her most recent book, “The Cuckoo’s Calling.” Here’s a succinct Bloomberg article by Duncan Watts that explains the tale:http://bloom.bg/15XEAab After finishing with the Potterverse, Rowling turned to adult fiction with her first non-Potter book, “The Casual Vacancy,” which met … Continue reading You Always Need Luck (the lesson of JK Rowling & Robert Galbraith)
I just finished listening to Kevin Pollak’s amazing interview with filmmaker Peter Farrelly (“Dumb and Dumber”, “There’s Something About Mary”, “Hall Pass”). You can watch it on YouTube here: http://bit.ly/12X3CGJ (Note: This is a 2 1/2 hour interview…be ready to be seated for a while!) Farrelly covers his entire career, how he became a writer, … Continue reading Why It’s Good You Don’t Always Get What You Want
Photo courtesy of babileta From childhood, I’ve always thought of myself as lucky. Good things seemed to come my way, and bad things stayed away. At Stanford, I even adopted a special t-shirt as a lucky talisman. Whenever I wore it, no matter how dire the circumstances, I always seemed to be be able to … Continue reading The Four Secrets of Lucky People
“Of course I believe in luck. How otherwise to explain the success of some people you detest?”–Jean Cocteau