Research has shown that anxiety disrupts people's ability to notice the unexpected.
In one experiment, people were asked to watch a moving dot in the centre of a computer screen.
Without warning, large dots would occasionally be flashed at the edges of the screen.
Nearly all participants noticed these large dots.
The experiment was then repeated with a second group of people, who were offered a large financial reward for accurately watching the centre dot, creating more anxiety.
They became focused on the centre dot and more than a third of them missed the large dots when they appeared on the screen.
The harder they looked, the less they saw.
From http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3304496/Be-lucky---its-an-easy-skill-to-learn.html
5 comments:
JMAN said :
kind of like the regulators of the financial markets... the harder they looked the less they saw.... ha
Ty said :
That's some interesting stuff! I read the linked article and it inspired me to buy Wiseman's books. Perhaps I'm being a sucker but I think there is probably something to his ideas on luck. Perhaps a lot of what we call 'luck' is simply definitional, i.e. what one person calls luck another may call skill, and vice versa.
Good post though, thank you.
Was it Lee Travino who said...
"The harder I work the luckier I become."
AlchemX said :
"The harder I work the luckier I become."
It was Thomas Jefferson
ImissTradesports said :
"i'm like king midas in reverse...everything i touch turns to sh$t" - tony soprano
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