Psychology Today | 15.06.2026 04:50
Most of us know someone who seems unbelievably lucky. They hear about a new apartment being for rent before anyone else. They wander into situations that suddenly catapult them into a great new job or project, buy an unimpressive stock, and it suddenly goes up a lot. And when enough of these seemingly random, positive outcomes happen to someone we know, we start to think that some of us just have more luck than others. But what if luck isn't what we think it is? What if the way luck works can be explained by a set of rules rather than the randomness of life?
