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We make our own luck
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Luck according to Webster's dictonary is defined as the seemingly chance happening of events that affect someone. It is also defined as good fortune. Therefore, if you say that someone is luck it means that they've had good luck. On the other hand misfortune is referred to as bad luck or something bad that happens just out of chance. But is luck really something that happens by chance? To some degree it may be such as a person winning the lottery jackpot, but even then it isn't totally chance as they must first buy a lottery ticket. The odds of someone winning are astronomically stacked against them; but it is the rare chance of winning large amounts of money that keep people buying lottery tickets. Who wins the lottery is purely driven by random chance. The good luck or the misfortune that accompanies them afterwards of winning the lottery however is not chance but is based upon their actions and attitude. According to Professor Richard Wiseman, author of The Luck Factor: The Scientific Study of the Lucky Mind, a significant portion of one's good fortune is not random, but rather due to one's state of mind and behaviors. He concludes that luck is an artifact of psychology, where a person is lucky not because of cosmic accidents, but because one achieves a particular mindset which precipitates and amplifies "lucky" events. According to experiments done by Professor Wiseman lucky indivi
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