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Originally Posted by Tacheon Black
You caught me, I'm afraid to have friends.
It isn't like for the most part they even say anything interesting, they're always just like "HEY WHAT'S UP HOWRE YOU TODAY WAS LAME HOW WAS YOUR DAY"
It's like they have presets saved for uninteresting conversations. It'd be fine if they said ANYTHING of value.
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My random conversation began with her simply asking "How are you?". I ran with it, and managed to have a conversation about RPGs, and she informed me that Chrono Trigger was re-released on the DS. I didn't know that.
I subscribe to the theory that luck is an ability to create luck. Professor Richard Wiseman agrees...
In research he conducted, inviting 1,000 people who described themselves as either lucky or unlucky to participate, he demonstrated some interesting things:
In an experiment involving a newspaper, the volunteer was asked to flip through a newspaper, and count how many photographs there were. They were told to do it "quickly, but don't rush".
Typically, the people who had described themselves as unlucky took two minutes to arrive at the number "52". Those who had described themselves as lucky typically took just seconds... there was large advertisement on page 5 which read: "STOP COUNTING - THERE ARE 52 PHOTOS IN HERE". This demonstrates that lucky people tend to keep more of an eye out for opportunities, noticing things that might escape others. What's more, there was another advertisement further in, which read "WIN £100 BY TELLING THE EXPERIMENTER YOU HAVE SEEN THIS!"
In another experiment, both groups were interviewed. The unlucky ones tended to have very closed body language, folding their arms and such, while the lucky group tended to have open body language, and smiled about 3 times as much. Said Wiseman: "So not only were lucky people better at spotting opportunities, their body language was subconsciously attracting them".
Link to a video detailing the research