Twitter at the speed of parenting
This scientist who wrote to us had used our web page (despite the bugs
) to find two photos of the same location in the remote Brazilian rainforest, taken 10 years apart.
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In other words - to be successful, you must be very intentional about what you want. Just don’t expect it to actually, uh, manifest the way you expect.
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There’s some really cool research backing this up. The most interesting one, for me, dealt with the concept of luck. As it turns out, people are about as lucky as they think they are. And increasing how lucky they think they are ACTUALLY makes them luckier.
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The reason for this? Only a small fraction of our motivation for doing things comes from our conscious minds. The rest comes from our subconscious mind - which you can sorta think of as all the things we know, but we aren’t consciously thinking about right now.
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Your ideas about ‘who you are’ & ‘what you are here for’ guide hundreds of thousands of microdecisions, even when you aren’t consciously thinking about anything so philosophical. Collectively, the outcome of those microdecisions changes - when your ideas about yourself change.
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What all this adds up to is that you need to set the right intentions in order to make the right decisions. And like a djinni who grants you a wish - the more specific you can be, the higher the chance that your microdecisions will add up to what you wanted.
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We wanted to “change the world.” And the djinni gave us what we asked for - vast improvements, right alongside privacy nightmares, surveillance states, and toxic work cultures. We should have been more specific. Stop “changing the world.” Start “making the world better.” [end]
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Do you have a link to this research? Thanks!
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Is this Richard Wiseman’s research? First time I heard about this and thought it was cool. Most results seem to reference back to his work http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/The_Luck_Factor.pdf …
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Very cool! I have always believed in emotional karma - not karma in that there is an independent force meting out justice, but that if you think and act positively you'll find you notice the good stuff more and the bad stuff less. Maybe it's similar to the luck research?
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I’ve been told I’m lucky (by a friend who was astonished at it). And I think of myself as being so. I don’t depend on my luck, but I just generally think that things will work out one way or another. Still work towards things I want, but it might not be the way I expect.
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