one "Do you think you are a lucky man?" This is a question that Matsushita Yukiko will ask when recruiting people. Luck is a rare good thing that happened unexpectedly. And if you throw this question to me, I will answer "yes" without hesitation. Because based on past experience, I find that there are always many unexpected but reasonable good things happening around me. However, it seems that everyone's perception of luck is different. I have seen such a story. In high school, one of the protagonist's classmates lost his right leg in a car accident on his way to school. At that time, he was very contradictory and didn't know whether to see the classmate, because in his opinion, in the face of such misfortune, he didn't know what to say to comfort the classmate. After many years, he went to his house with some old classmates. To his surprise, his classmates were not as depressed and depressed as he thought. Instead, they took them with a smile on crutches to visit his recent paintings and advertising designs. His classmates said: "When there was a car accident, I thought I would die; when I was treated in the hospital, I thought I could only lie in bed all my life; after I was discharged from the hospital, I thought I couldn't do anything meaningful... But now, I'm still alive and have a healthy left leg, and my designer dream hasn't stopped. Thank you very much. I'm still lucky to have the whole world." The protagonist in the story chooses an unfortunate way of perception. He believes that such a car accident is tantamount to destroying a person, while the students in the car accident choose a way of perception that proves their luck. As a result, his life is constantly proving his luck. In fact, luck and misfortune are just that you choose a different way of life perception. Just like Matsushita, who likes to ask others whether they are lucky or not, in his opinion, if a person thinks he is an unfortunate person, he will bring this perception of misfortune into the organization and constantly find evidence to prove his unhappiness through his words and deeds. Conversely, a person who always thinks he is lucky will often get used to searching for things to prove his luck in his work and life. two The occurrence of luck seems unexpected, but it feels like there are traces to follow. The objective world around us is not objective in our eyes, but mixed with our thoughts, ideas and feelings. The beliefs behind these are often subjective and depend on a set of cognitive framework in our mind. This is a kind of "framing effect", which allows us to selectively accept facts and see what we recognize in our framework according to our own perceptual preferences. Therefore, the different perception of luck is that different people choose different cognitive frameworks. So, in fact, each of us is looking at the world with a pair of colored glasses, filtering out what we don't support in our cognitive framework, leaving only those we agree with. For a simple example, if you are going to leave for Beijing next week, you will find that there are information related to Beijing everywhere on the Internet, and many topics among friends and colleagues around you are also related to Beijing. In fact, there has always been so much information related to Beijing, but when you add the keyword "Beijing" to the "cognitive framework", you have a sense of active perception of "Beijing", and this sense will spontaneously find the information about "Beijing" like radar and ignore other information. Facing the same fact, luck or misfortune depends on the "cognitive framework" we choose. Like two lost people in the desert, they have only half a bottle of water left. One person said, it's terrible. There's only half a bottle of water left. Another said, great! And half a bottle of water! As a result, the first man fell only a few hundred meters away from the water source, and the second man walked out of the desert with half a bottle of water. When you choose a cognitive framework of "you are lucky", your consciousness will naturally search for the facts related to luck and automatically ignore the frustrating and pessimistic misfortunes. At this time, you are coerced by a "lucky cognitive framework", your thinking and action will change, and these changes will strengthen your cognition and let you do those things related to luck unconsciously. Scientifically speaking, luck is a probability problem. However, if you choose to believe that you are lucky, your efforts, depth and breadth of thinking will be very different from those who do not believe in this belief, and the probability of success (the so-called probability) is much higher than those who do not believe in your luck. Luck and misfortune may be just a wishful thinking, but the results are quite different. three Since the power of "frame effect" is so powerful, is it necessary to get lucky results as long as you believe you are lucky? Of course not! There is a saying called "the harder you work, the luckier you are", which actually has a very scientific logic. You must have such classmates or friends around you. They do almost the same things as us every day, but they are always willing to spend some time every day reciting a few words, reading a few pages of books, exercising for a while and learning a new thing. In our opinion, such efforts are so small that we often disdain to do them, and even don't think they will be better than us if they do this. As a result, one day, you find that the people around you are suddenly better than us, or enter a better company, or do more valuable things independently. At this time, we realized the gap, but we can only respond with self consolation - "I didn't expect him to be so lucky!" On closer examination, this unexpected huge gap and the unexpected happiness of others are continuously constructed by those subtle and insignificant efforts. In fact, there is a profound scientific principle behind it—— Precondition: suppose a person's initial value is 1 If a person improves by 1% every day compared with yesterday, after 365 days, his value is 1.01 ^ 365 = 37.8 (1 + 0.01) to the power of 365 If a person steps back 1% from yesterday every day, his value after 365 days is 0.99 ^ 365 = 0.03 (1 - 0.01) to the power of 365 What a terrible comparison. If you change the growth rate of progress to 2%, you will find that the gap is even greater. Behind this is the power of compound interest, which is also the scientific explanation of "the harder you work, the luckier you are". If you want to be more lucky, you need not only hard work, but also continuous efforts. This continuity reflects whether a person has the character of perseverance and patience. Life is actually very simple. Either you continue to grow, and the positive compound interest makes you more and more powerful. As a result, you will naturally reap unexpected good luck; Or you stagnate or even grow backward. Negative compound interest will make you more and more mediocre and unfortunate. four Richard Wiseman, a professor of social psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, spent more than a decade studying the relationship between luck and human behavior. In his published book the lucky factor, he talked about many of his own behaviors and processing patterns related to luck. He believed that "luck is not magic or a gift given by God. Whether you are lucky or not is determined by your thoughts and actions". He believes that the factor of probability accounts for about 10%, and the other 90% of the lucky factors depend on themselves. He also said that lucky people, they are awake, they are sensitive, they are not stingy to try, and they welcome opportunities and the emergence and occurrence of new things. If luck is the right time in the right place, or doing the right thing in the right place, then the so-called right - depends on whether the thought and behavior are in a field called "right". According to Richard Wiseman, lucky people tend to have three personality traits: Extroversion: this kind of extroversion refers to actively communicating with the outside world and being good at capturing and finding new information and opportunities. Therefore, we can participate in some new activities and experience some new things. Even introverted people can try to expand their communication circle with the outside world. Openness: people with this personality are willing to try new things, or even break the original cognitive framework and obtain a new level of thinking. Often people with an open personality have a growing personality and are willing to make continuous progress, which is also the basis of "the harder the luckier". Peace: people with this character are not easy to be anxious and nervous, and can calmly face the outside world. Lucky people are also those who have no negative emotions and are relaxed. As the saying goes, character determines destiny. It's not easy to change your character, but it's not impossible. If we often reflect on our way of thinking and behavior patterns, we can actually reshape our internal character step by step, so as to move closer to the characteristics of "extroversion", "openness" and "peace". Through the cultivation of inner character to guide our thinking and action, the probability of meeting luck in life will be much higher. It's not hard to be a lucky person. First, you have to choose a lucky cognitive framework; Then, you have to understand the essence of "the harder you work, the luckier you are"; And finally, remember to continue to cultivate your inner character. I still remember the feather at the beginning of Forrest Gump, dancing in the air and finally falling at Forrest Gump's feet, followed by the classic line—— Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get. And I believe that luck is also in that box of chocolate. One day, one moment, you pick up one, put it in your mouth, and then smile with surprise.