2023-10-05 06:30:43
in the book Mazal, Francesc Miralles reveals to us, as the book’s subtitle says, “the ancestral secret of fortune”. In this fable, the author offers us a journey towards the secrets of success
Does luck not exist?
Chance exists. What we mean by luck is a combination of chance plus the decisions we make. Luck conditions us, but it changes from one person to another according to what he does and according to how he thinks.
What we mean by luck is a combination of chance plus the decisions we make
So that we can favor or harm it?
And so, this is very studied. We can especially favor bad luck with what is called in psychology the self-fulfilling prophecy. If you go to a job interview convinced that you will not be accepted, you unconsciously boycott yourself, because you are more nervous and clumsy. It won’t go well. And the same thing happens on a romantic date. The expectations we have about what will happen have an impact on what happens. We greatly influence our luck.
And in acts of pure chance, like a lottery?
impossible Anyone who says you can influence this is lying.
Does wishing others luck help?
Maybe it serves to encourage. Miri, in Japanese culture, they wish you good luck with an expression that means “do your best”. Notice the difference between wishing good luck and wishing you to do your best. If you try, you will have more chances.
The expectations we have about what will happen have an impact on what happens. We greatly influence our luck
Just like we humans are: if everyone was lucky wouldn’t we be so excited to have it?
Generous people share good fortune, in the sense that they look out for family and friends. The topic of happiness is well studied – the famous Harvard study was recently published – and it has a lot to do with good relationships with the people around you. In “The habits of highly efficient people”, Stephen Covey highlighted, in the concept of win-win, that the best luck is that which makes you win and makes others win.
You must be very lucky.
Things are going well for me now, but I’ve had really bad things in the past, I’ve met all ends of the spectrum. When I quit my formal job of signing in every morning and collecting a salary, I ended up owing rent on three and four floors, I was getting eviction letters. It was difficult. When we see a lucky person we are seeing the end of the process, but we don’t see all the failures that have led them there. I’ve written maybe a hundred books, and only six or seven have really worked. For something to turn out well, a lot of stone has to be crushed first.
The best luck is the one that makes you win and makes others win
Seen this way, maybe failing is being lucky.
There are very successful failures. Elon Musk was last year the richest man in the world, but his biography is one piece of shit after another.
“Health, money and love”, Salomé sang. Is there anything else?
Friends. Going back to the Harvard study I was talking about, the number one factor in happiness is having good relationships. In other words, be friends with your partner, your parents, family, co-workers and take care of lifelong friends. If he has a good network of friends, he will be healthy and someone will leave him money if he is short, which I asked for and also left.
And love?
Well, romantic love comes and goes. Friends are forever.
Elon Musk was last year the richest man in the world, but his biography is one piece of shit after another
Is being alive already lucky?
Man, the chance of being born is already one in a million, a real lottery. And then, many times we have been lucky enough to go to sleep and wake up the next day.
Now I don’t know whether to say goodbye wishing him luck or to try hard.
We can say goodbye like the Hebrews: mazal tovmay you have a good star.
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