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= It's Just Luck = by Wendy Nulty

Walking around the neighborhood I have heard many people say "Your so lucky." or "Why do i have to be so unlucky?" I thought is it that you are lucky or unlucky or is it just sometimes things are worse than normal. I also thought maybe if you believe your unlucky you will be unlucky or the other way around. I decided to ask my friends if they believed in luck. When some of them said they didn't believe, it made me wonder is it just in your mind. I do myself believe in luck. It makes me wonder now when i think im having a lucky moment or having a unlucky moment is it just all in my head. was it going to happen anyway whether im lucky or not. I researched the topic of luck and found an interesting book by Dr. Richard Wiseman. Dr. Richard Wiseman conducted a study by having people buy lottery tickets. Half of the people believing they were lucky, the other half believing they were unlucky. I thought does that have an impact on if you win the money or not. I always wanted to know that if you believe your lucky does it increase your chance or does it just increase your confidence of winning. If you are unlucky does that decrease your chance of winning or does it just decrease your amount of confidence.

I went to wikipedia and searched luck. This brought me to learn that many people believe in luck and many people don't. It also said that luck is psychological. I searched what is luck on Google and it brought me to Dr.Richard Wiseman who did a study on luck. I bought his book and found it very interesting. It taught me that most people feel they are lucky in careers and schools. The truth is that you earned that spot. You may think your lucky for getting the job but there is a reason you got the job over everybody else. Dr. Richard Wiseman conducted a study. One man he interviewed who thought of himself as lucky picked three horses. All three horses did win however the next race they did not. The man still believed his lucky number was three after losing almost all his original winnings in other races. Whether you believe you are lucky or unlucky it has a great affect on your life.( Wiseman, Richard. __The Luck Factor__. New York: Miramax Books, 2003.)

My friend helped me out with my i-search and told me to write about superstitions. That made me realize that superstitions are a big part of luck.Superstitions also have a great affect on life. People believe in superstitions that aren't true and live their life accordingly. Once they break the superstition they believe their life will be unlucky so you notice all the bad things that happen to you. Believing you are lucky or unlucky doesn't change how lucky or unlucky you are. It changes the way you see things. Luck is believed to be a false idea that produces positive or negative thinking. Your luck is coincidences not really that you are lucky or unlucky or an occurrences of certain events at a certain time. There are many superstitions out there that people follow. Some superstitions are walking under a ladder, a black cat crossing your path and knocking over salt.([|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstitions>.])

I decided to interview one of my fellow classmates. I asked her if she believed in luck. She responded no. She did respond that she did believe in superstitions. She said she never really believed in superstitions but one day a balck cat crossed her path and she got sick for a week. She also says she walked under a ladder and she had bad luck. Hearing that people believe in superstitions just shows that people believe luck is influenced by behavior.(anonymous,

I learned a lot about people and what they believe in. I learned that if you believe in luck it has a great influence on your life. I learned that many people believe in superstitions. They believe that bad luck will come if they don't do something. You may have had somebody tell you to watch out for the ladder and not to walk under it. I learned so many people follow superstitions even if they don't really believe in luck that much. I learned that superstitions are believed more than luck when luck comes out of superstitions.



**Works Cited**
Wiseman, Richard. __The Luck Factor__. New York: Miramax Books, 2003. "LUCK." __Wkipedia__. 1 Apr. 2008. 10 Apr. 2008 <[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck>.] "Superstition." __Wikipedia__. 13 Apr. 2008. 24 Apr. 2008 . media type="custom" key="819579"