Is it your lucky day? What makes a lucky person so ... lucky?
Some people have all the luck. They seem to have an inexplicable abundance of good fortune. They are successful in matters of love, in their careers, in their finances, and in leading happy and meaningful lives. Every day is their lucky day. Yet these people don't seem to work particularly hard, nor do they posses extraordinary intelligence or other gifts. Of course there are also the natural opposites of the super-fortunate; people who repeatedly fail despite their efforts and talents. As is true with so many human problems, people tend deal with this difficult-to-quantify inequality by giving it a name-- "luck"-- and then disclaiming any responsibility for how much of it they