Comments on: We Participate in Creating Our Experience http://wellbeingandhealth.net/psychological-health/we-pariticipate-in-creating-our-experience/ All aspects of wellbeing and health Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:39:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Evan http://wellbeingandhealth.net/psychological-health/we-pariticipate-in-creating-our-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-4191 Evan Fri, 19 Feb 2010 10:00:39 +0000 http://wellbeingandhealth.net/?p=1577#comment-4191 Hi Adam, thanks for alerting me to the typo. Fixed now. I'd heard about the study of luck - it is interesting. Thanks for your comment. Hi Adam, thanks for alerting me to the typo. Fixed now. I’d heard about the study of luck – it is interesting. Thanks for your comment.

]]> By: Adam http://wellbeingandhealth.net/psychological-health/we-pariticipate-in-creating-our-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-4190 Adam Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:45:11 +0000 http://wellbeingandhealth.net/?p=1577#comment-4190 Hi Evan Did you notice the typo in your title? Here's an interesting news-bite which correlates well with your more realistic approach to the role of the Subjective... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/3304496/Be-lucky-its-an-easy-skill-to-learn.html ...it's a piece by Richard Wiseman, a clinical psych who has investigated the differences between lucky & unlucky people. That surprised me as I always thought 'luck' was too random to study, but what he found was 'luckiness' is actually a skilful attitude to one's experiences, an openess to possibility and opportunity. The unlucky fixate too much on singular objects of desire and miss all the contigent possibilities that the lucky spot because they 'free their minds' from ego-fixations. Hi Evan

Did you notice the typo in your title?

Here’s an interesting news-bite which correlates well with your more realistic approach to the role of the Subjective…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tec.....learn.html

…it’s a piece by Richard Wiseman, a clinical psych who has investigated the differences between lucky & unlucky people. That surprised me as I always thought ‘luck’ was too random to study, but what he found was ‘luckiness’ is actually a skilful attitude to one’s experiences, an openess to possibility and opportunity. The unlucky fixate too much on singular objects of desire and miss all the contigent possibilities that the lucky spot because they ‘free their minds’ from ego-fixations.

]]> By: Evan http://wellbeingandhealth.net/psychological-health/we-pariticipate-in-creating-our-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-4166 Evan Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:50:11 +0000 http://wellbeingandhealth.net/?p=1577#comment-4166 Long comments are fine. I'll go look at the other post, thanks for engaging with what I have to say. Long comments are fine. I’ll go look at the other post, thanks for engaging with what I have to say.

]]> By: Rags http://wellbeingandhealth.net/psychological-health/we-pariticipate-in-creating-our-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-4165 Rags Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:46:49 +0000 http://wellbeingandhealth.net/?p=1577#comment-4165 I just wrote a ridiculously long comment, but decided it'd be more appropriate to reply to your guest post ;) I just wrote a ridiculously long comment, but decided it’d be more appropriate to reply to your guest post ;)

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