I am a mostly a non-believer. I did have a somewhat lucky day a few weeks ago after finding a penny heads-up on the ground. I also had some luck at a casino a couple of years ago with a lucky buckeye someone gave to me for just such an occasion. There was a time in which I found a penny heads-up on my birthday and it was from the year I was born and nothing great happened. I just found a penny heads-up on the ground today, and am hoping it brings me good luck tomorrow with something I need luck for. I do somewhat believe in lucky years. Through the years more good things have happened to me in even numbered years, and bad things have happened to me in odd numbered years.
Nope. But i believe in the science proving that things will play out better for people that BELIEVE they are lucky since it causes them to be less stressed and focusing more on the positive things happening thus influencing their perception of events in a positive way.
What Cinis said. I can't remember where I read it but I read about a study some psychologist or other did where they asked people if they considered themselves lucky or unlucky then had them guess or predict numbers or card faces or whatever. Anyway, the people self-describing as lucky did statistically significantly better than the people who self-described as unlucky. So I consider it a self-fulfilling prophecy type thing and also because we tend to exclude things that disprove our beliefs. Like when we say "bad things happen in 3s," it's mainly because we stop counting at 3. So when we say something causes good or bad luck it's mainly because we're excluding all the evidence to the contrary. My lucky penny creates good luck because in retrospect I amplify the good things that happened while I believed in it and minimize the not-so-good stuff. But that's not a bad way to be. A belief in positive outcomes can give you confidence to dare more and follow through more leading to more success while minimizing the inevitable failures along the way. It's a positive cycle. Like while I don't believe in luck, I consider myself a "lucky" person. It's not that bad things don't happen to me, it's that they tend to happen in such a way that I'm able to cover the damages or somehow skate through. I think overall it tends to even out across the graph, but I focus on the good.
I don't believe in luck but, like AmyBee said, I do consider myself a "lucky" person. While there's the bad luck of being transgender, there's the good luck of being born into a rich family that won't discriminate against me or throw me out. Also the good luck of being an extrovert and not going to self-harm before going to my parents. I've had a lot of other lucky things happen to me in my life but I think it's just circumstantial.
Mostly no. The one time I did believe in it was in 2010-2011. I'm a huge Green Bay Packers fan, and at one point in 2010, it didn't look like we were going to make the playoffs. For Christmas I got a new Packers shirt, which I wore on the next gameday. We won. I wore it on every gameday through the rest of the season, and we didn't lose the rest of the way. The Packers won the Super Bowl that season. I continued the streak of wearing it every gameday through the next season. We won the first 12 games that season, and overall ended with a record of 15-1, losing in our first playoff game. I since have not worn the shirt on gameday.
