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     Luck and doubt work inversely – each one serves to vanquish the other.  The absence of doubt is responsible for the phenomenon known as “beginner’s luck”.  Beginners don’t have doubts about what they are doing – it looks easy, so they try it and find that it is easy.  They don’t know enough to grasp all the pitfalls and complexities in what they are doing instinctively (by intuition).

            Therefore, to increase luck, it is necessary to banish doubt.  The hard part is, that just as it takes money to make money, it takes luck to believe that we are lucky.  That’s what makes it so hard to break out of a bad luck streak.  The reason why people get into bad luck streaks in the first place is because our society encourages doubt, not luck.  Society wants people to believe that their best chance for luck is to play the game by society’s rules, rather than to follow their own dreams and feelings and hunches.  Those who try to strike on their own are met with great resistance and doubt by their fellows:  by banks, government and business institutions, their own family and friends.  Therefore, a truly lucky attitude also requires being close-mouthed about oneself and one’s affairs, so as not to become a target for other people’s jealousy, which is the same thing as their doubt, which they can hurl to arouse one’s own doubt.

            What unlucky people are really striving for – which unlucky people must learn to see within themselves if they are to change their luck – is self-pity.  And unlucky people get it.  They are as lucky at getting what they want (excuses to pity themselves) as lucky people are at getting what they want.  Self-pity is a drain on the energy needed to bring luck.  We each have only a finite amount of energy, which we can spend on either luck or self-pity, but not both.  It is our society which teaches us to pity ourselves – which stands to gain from our collective self-pity and “helplessness”.

            Changing from an unlucky to a lucky attitude is hard to do – no bones about it.  Although there is indeed a Law of Abundance, to make that one work requires the utmost will and discipline. To arbitrarily adopt an attitude of carefree abundance when we’re flat broke and being pressed by creditors; or an attitude of radiant good health when we’re dying of AIDS; isn’t easy to do.  The only motivation we have is that there is no choice – it’s either change, or self-pity.  It’s a true triumph of the will to be able to arrive at an attitude of being nourished and protected even though nothing is going right.   True luck is being able to maintain our equanimity, our cool, our belief that we’re in good shape, even in the midst of a maelstrom.

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