I challenge you or anyone else to justify this statement. Nothing could be further from the truth, and several of your own articles here clearly disprove it.

Optimistic, social, “lucky” people are also more likely to be very trusting. They make wonderful targets for serial killers, who frankly have a hard time getting to depressed shut-ins.

But now I’m just being dark.

However, there is one more element that goes into ability that isnt even mentioned here. That thing is timing. Wind may work with me one minute, then against me the next. Windows of oppertunity are based on timing as well as ability. With this in mind who cares if I have a 99% chance of winning the lottery if in this time the cards aren’t in my favor. Chance isnt the important thing, it is timing, and that is where luck is.

Those with lots of positive luck have good timing and good skills, and the ability to recognise (or just keep in sync with) good timing. Those with poor luck have a difficiency in one or the other. However, timing is the key to it all. So what if I can do a task well if I am off set by poor timing? If I drive my car down the highway, do I have good luck just because I am a good driver? No, I have good results driving because I timed my drive well and was able to apply my driving skills within that narrow operating window.

So in order to actively increase ones luck, chance isnt as much important as forsight. More oppertunities do not automatically make one successful, just provide possibility. Probablity only increases with forsight and skill. Luck is generated in this order, timing, ability, and chance. With poor timing, nothing following it matters. Without skill, the task no matter how many times performed will be successful. Finally chance, without which there would be no oppertunity to excersize the former.