The Sure-Fire Way To Be Luckier In Life - Advice From Psychology Professor Richard Wiseman

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Released

July 23, 2022

Duration

1h 21m

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Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

[Free 3-hour course] Turn your expertise into a $100k/year income stream → https://go.lifestylebusiness.com/lbafound Make money with the skills you already have: https://go.aliabdaal.com/lbapoddesc Subscribe to LifeNotes 👉 https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes_deepdive Go to https://shortform.com/deepdive to get 20% off the annual premium subscription. 📚 Check Out My New York Times Bestselling Book Feel-Good Productivity! 👉 https://go.feelgoodproductivity.com/podcast 📧 Sign up for LifeNotes - my weekly newsletter where I share actionable productivity tips, practical life advice, and high-quality insights from across the web directly to your inbox. 👉https://go.aliabdaal.com/lifenotes/podcast Most of us tend to believe that luck is this omnipotent force beyond our control, but the reality is we can actually manufacture luck and increase our chances of lucky events happening to us. My guest this week is Psychology Professor Richard Wiseman who has published over 100 academic papers and countless books examining the psychology of magic and illusion, deception, luck and self-development. In the conversation we delve into all of these quirky areas of psychology, discussing the findings of Richard’s ten-year scientific study into the nature of luck, the power of the ‘As If’ principle, magic and much more. 00:00 Intro 1:57 Getting into psychology 8:05 The psychology of luck 13:10 How can you test something like luck? 19:29 How lucky journals change your self perception 20:50 The problem with reduce self-help to a cliché 22:00 Ali’s book writing struggle 28:08 Why we shouldn’t care about goals 30:20 The balance between passion and making money 43:63 The As If principle 49:04 Research into the paranormal 50:38 The mindset of going to the moon 53:54 How to be more likeable 58:01 How much is positive self-talk useful? 1:02:29 Magic and performing 🔗 CONNECT WITH RICHARD 🎥 YouTube Channel - @Quirkology 💻 Website - https://richardwiseman.wordpress.com/ 📸 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/instawiseman/?hl=en 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/RichardWiseman 🔗 CONNECT WITH ALI 💌 Sign up to my weekly email newsletter - https://aliabdaal.com/friendzone/ 🎥 YouTube Channel - https://youtube.com/aliabdaal 💻 Website - https://aliabdaal.com 📸 Instagram - https://instagram.com/aliabdaal 🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/aliabdaal 👥 Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ali-abdaal/ 💙 The Friendzone Discord - https://discord.gg/Dh2kGavffd 📚 RESOURCES MENTIONED Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman - https://geni.us/6B5Lg Rip It up by Richard Wiseman - https://geni.us/GXE4 Pure Effect: Direct Mindreading and Magical Artistry by Derren Brown - https://geni.us/tHj6Lf Absolute Magic - A Model for Powerful Close-Up Performance by Derren Brown https://geni.us/gaIt93N The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - https://geni.us/3YEUIAA How To Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - https://geni.us/WYewnv How To Stop Worrying And Start Living by Dale Carnegie - https://geni.us/tGlQF The Minimalist Entrepreneur by Sahil Lavingia - https://geni.us/tErBuC Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins

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🎤 SPEAKERS

• Richard Wiseman

  guest

  Psychology professor and researcher known for work on the psychology of luck, magic/illusion, and skepticism.

• Ali Abdaal

  host

  Host of Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal, interviewing creators and experts.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal, featuring Richard Wiseman and Ali Abdaal, The Sure-Fire Way To Be Luckier In Life - Advice From Psychology Professor Richard Wiseman explores Psychologist Richard Wiseman on Luck, Passion, Magic and Living Interestingly Wiseman describes his path from magic to psychology to parapsychology, crediting chance encounters, including a stranger who told him to focus on what he could do, as more influential than any plan.

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