The Lucky One Link

The "lucky" moments, however, are almost always silent. The brake that worked. The text that was sent three minutes late, which inadvertently avoided a traffic jam. The cough that made you stay home the night of a party you didn't really want to attend.

We romanticize the lottery winner, the person who gets the last slice of pizza, the soldier in Nicholas Sparks’ novel The Lucky One who survives a blast to find a photograph in the rubble. But survival isn't statistical luck—it is often just the cumulative result of a thousand mundane choices. The Lucky One

The Paradox of the Lucky One

Perhaps it isn't the person who never gets hurt. Perhaps it is the person who, despite the flat tires and the missed flights, still believes the next light will turn green. The "lucky" moments, however, are almost always silent

We all know someone who seems to have a horseshoe in their back pocket. The one who catches the green light every time, who finds a twenty-dollar bill on the day their coffee machine breaks. We call them "The Lucky One." The cough that made you stay home the