Luck and the Winner’s Curse
One last point on this. The more I read about our RAS the more it occurs to me that it may also have an impact on luck – that key ingredient that those with high achievement motivation seem to have in abundance and us High-FFs seem to lack. Certainly, I have always considered myself unlucky – to the point where I would joke about the “Kelsey Effect” on any company, car, girlfriend, house, street, city or country I alighted upon. Bad things would immediately and unexpectedly start happening to them. And my wife likes to joke about the “Kelsey Cloud” that always seems to follow us on our summer holidays (we even had rain on our trip to the Sahara Desert!).
Yet I noticed that my “luck” seemed to change when I became focused ...
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