“I believe in luck, but in a scientific way, its like entropy, the universe has a specific amount of it, thus you can get caught in a “disorder wave” of the universe and no matter what you do, you are just in the wrong place at the wrong. Time, and the counter argument about luck is you are stuck in a “order wave” and things tend toward order around you with you gaining from them.
Being stuck in a “disorder wave” or bad luck quake sucks, I think the only way to get out of it is to make huge random shifts in behavior, timing, and decisions, but these are hard to do as well. But, I think we can all get out of bad luck or get into bad luck. I have seen both.

But, luck is real, its both a psychological thing as the researcher showed, unlucky people have so much anxiety since they know something is going to go wrong, they try too hard, where as lucky people just don’t care since everything works out effortlessly. BUT, there is a real component of timing, and locality that effects luck and that’s the hard one to shift.

In life, all it takes is ONE unlucky event and you can be on the bad luck train for a long time, like a death in the family, a lawsuit, a divorce, a disease, a natural disaster. And with the economy so harsh, its hard to get back on your feet into a postion where you can take risks, thus you get stuck in the unlucky state.”
Andre’
Andre La Mothe, XGameStation forum post “The Luck Factor”

“You can’t compare us. You can only look at yourself with pride because many people just marinate in their respective holes. You didn’t. You fought. You won. You’re doing great. I’m proud of you. And you can’t measure the progress of your life against mine unless we both had the same starting point. We didn’t. And I don’t know, we can never know, if I would have been as brave as you.”
Dr Laura Schlessinger, Bad Childhood, Good Life. Page 61.

“Let’s face it, there are some task that you’re not going to do well, no matter how hard you try, how many lessons you take, and how long you practice. Let it go!

Some people will never be good at playing the piano, some will never be good at computer programming, and some people will never be good at creative writing. This is simply human nature.”
Jeff Davidson, The 60 Second Procrastinator. Page 64.