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The Secret of the Serendipity Effect: How to Change Your Life with the Power of Luck

Mindfulfab
4 min readMay 9, 2024

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Everyone’s talking about life-changing money hacks, the secret sauce to financial freedom. But today, I want to shift the focus to something even more powerful: life-changing luck.

We’ve all been there, right? Stuck in a rut, feeling like the universe is playing favorites, showering good fortune on everyone else while we’re left holding the empty bag. For a long time, that was my reality. Months of applications yielded nothing but a graveyard of rejection emails. Discouragement gnawed at me, but then, I stumbled upon a concept that became a turning point: believing in your own luck.

It sounds almost silly, doesn’t it? Like some mystical good luck charm. But here’s the thing: as psychologist William James said, "Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." Believing in your luck isn’t about passive waiting; it’s about cultivating an optimistic mindset that unlocks a world of possibilities.

Let me share how it transformed my life and ignited a domino effect of serendipitous events.

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