From the course: How to Boost Your Creativity at Home in 10 Days
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How to improve your observation skills
From the course: How to Boost Your Creativity at Home in 10 Days
How to improve your observation skills
(electric guitar music) - In the early 90s, professor Richard Wiseman did a study into luck. He recruited two groups of people for his experiment, people that considered themselves to be especially lucky and people who considered themselves to be especially unlucky. The first group are likely to find some money in the streets, while the second group are probably the ones who lost it. He sent them both the same test. They simply had to count the number of photos in a newspaper. The unlucky ones took a couple of minutes and often got the answer wrong, while the lucky ones took seconds and got the answer right. And you were wondering why that would be. Well, on the second page of the newspaper was a headline that read stop counting. There are 43 photographs in this newspaper. It may seem that luck has nothing to do with preordained fate. It's all about observation. The unlucky people were so focused on counting…
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