Unlucky? Here’s more bad news

Do you think of yourself as lucky? A recent study from the United Kingdom suggests that maybe what you’re perceiving isn’t luck at all. People who reported more good luck also tended to have better cognitive skills. Conversely, the sense of being unlucky “may, to an extent, reflect deficits in a series of executive functions needed to initiate, plan, develop strategies around, organise, and pay attention to task or goal-orientated behaviours.”