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Is good luck a personality trait?
Napoleon Boneparte, on being told the virtues of a new general - the man's heroism, bravery, skill in battle and so on - waved his hand impatiently. "That's all very well," he said, "but is he lucky?"
Napoleon regarded luck as a personal attribute rather than a matter of chance. A lucky person would always win out over adverse circumstances, he believed, whereas an unlucky person - even a general who was expert in the techniques of war - was fated to meet with failure and disaster on the battlefield.
Skeptics, of course, pour scorn on the idea of personal luck, and many would claim that people make their own luck, and that success is the reward for hard work, persistence and the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time.
And of course there is a great deal of truth in this.
Yet it is also undeniably true that there are certain people who are lucky in everything they do, and who always seem to be in the right place at the right time. We say of such people that they "always land on their feet", or that they have "the devil's luck".
On the other hand, there are individuals who seem to be "jinxed", or "accident prone", and, even though they may be industrious, clever, persistent and so on, invariably fail in everything they set out to accomplish.
Can psychic ability help you to win the Lottery?
In the weeks and months ahead, we'll be exploring the area of personal luck, and investigating the claim made by some psychics that bad luck can often be attributed to "negative psi", and that it is possible for a person to improve his or her luck by divinatory techniques and psychic training. We'll also be looking into the question of whether it is possible to use psychic abilities to predict the winning numbers of the National Lottery, or "see" the winner of the Grand National in a dream or premonition. And we'll be carrying out a number of online experiments to test your predictive powers.
So stay tuned to this website. We just might help you to win the Lottery!
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