{"id":336,"date":"2010-02-16T17:49:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T22:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efsavage.com\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2011-06-23T07:26:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T11:26:51","slug":"fortune-smiles-on-those-who-smile-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/fortune-smiles-on-those-who-smile-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortune smiles on those who smile back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always considered myself a pretty lucky person, whether it&#8217;s spotting opportunities, avoiding bad ones, getting good jobs, etc.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/3304496\/Be-lucky-its-an-easy-skill-to-learn.html\">This article<\/a> claims that you actually do make your own luck, and the way that happens jives with how I go about things.  Some snippets:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lucky people tend to respect hunches<\/li>\n<li>Lucky people try to introduce variety into their lives<\/li>\n<li>Lucky people tend to see the positive side of their ill fortune<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;re feeling unlucky, take a deep breath and try something new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve always considered myself a pretty lucky person, perhaps I am actually &#8220;making my own luck&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[304,306,305],"series":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advice","tag-luck","tag-opportunity","tag-variety"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AkJt-5q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}