Why again do we want to apply the strategies of lucky people? To get lucky too? That may go too short and fail for a number of reasons.
I’d guess that the “unlucky” people might better be described as being risk-aversive and in a low-risk environment. That may be unlucky for them but poses the following questions:
How to determine whether you are in a low or high risk environment (and whether that is about to change).
How to determine whether you follow (subconsciously) a risk-aversive strategy.
I think the first question depends extremely heavy on your physical, temporal and social location. And it may change faster than you’d like or expect.
Humans probably have some more or less hard-wired heuristics for this which are most probably not really adapted well to a social welfare society.
Given that you seldom have precise information about the risk/opportunity level of your environment you have to infer that by trial and error. This may fall prey to all the known biases, e.g. egocentric bias may lead you to ascribe the outcome not to the hostility of the environment but to your ability to cope with it. And if you do only a limited number or tries chance may play tricks on you.
My recommendation would be to try at least a minimum number of explorative ‘risky’ moves to determine how hostile the environment really is. You will not suffer from it as long as you a) don’t try extreme sports, b) don’t sign long-term contracts.
For the second question you should probably consult some objective third person(s). I wouldn’t recommend trying risk-taking if you are fundamentally risk-aversive. Then you might better move into a higher risk environment where your talent may play out better :-)
try at least a minimum number of explorative ‘risky’ moves to determine how hostile the environment really is. You will not suffer from it as long as you a) don’t try extreme sports, b) don’t sign long-term contracts.
That assumes you have nothing to lose. This is more or less true for teenagers but usually becomes less so with age.
Why again do we want to apply the strategies of lucky people? To get lucky too? That may go too short and fail for a number of reasons. I’d guess that the “unlucky” people might better be described as being risk-aversive and in a low-risk environment. That may be unlucky for them but poses the following questions:
How to determine whether you are in a low or high risk environment (and whether that is about to change).
How to determine whether you follow (subconsciously) a risk-aversive strategy.
I think the first question depends extremely heavy on your physical, temporal and social location. And it may change faster than you’d like or expect.
Humans probably have some more or less hard-wired heuristics for this which are most probably not really adapted well to a social welfare society.
Given that you seldom have precise information about the risk/opportunity level of your environment you have to infer that by trial and error. This may fall prey to all the known biases, e.g. egocentric bias may lead you to ascribe the outcome not to the hostility of the environment but to your ability to cope with it. And if you do only a limited number or tries chance may play tricks on you.
My recommendation would be to try at least a minimum number of explorative ‘risky’ moves to determine how hostile the environment really is. You will not suffer from it as long as you a) don’t try extreme sports, b) don’t sign long-term contracts.
For the second question you should probably consult some objective third person(s). I wouldn’t recommend trying risk-taking if you are fundamentally risk-aversive. Then you might better move into a higher risk environment where your talent may play out better :-)
That assumes you have nothing to lose. This is more or less true for teenagers but usually becomes less so with age.
Of course this advice applies typically for teenagers. In applies always if you don’t know enough of the opportunities of your environment.