Does bad luck actually exist?

Answer 1

I just saw a study about that and it said that people were tested who described themselves as very lucky and they tested far higher for observational skills than average people.

It may just be that lucky people are paying closer attention to what is happening around them.

Love and blessings Don

Answer 2

It depends on what you mean by luck.

If you mean that there is some kind of force or fate that makes bad things always happen to a specific someone or someplace or something, then no. Usually there is a reason for it, which makes it NOT luck. So if someone has a bad attitude or is careless, bad things will tend to happen to them. It is not luck, though they may perceive it as such, it is really THEM. Or if a town is built on the Gulf Coast and gets hit by a hurricane, it is not bad luck. It was certain to happen eventually. There is a reason for it.

If you mean luck in the sense of something arbitrarily happening to someone, then yes. If something bad happens and there was nothing you could do about it because it was random, you could describe that as bad luck. If you just happen to be walking under a specific tree one day and a specific bird takes a dump on your head, that could be called bad luck. You didn't HAVE to be under that tree at that particular moment with that particular bird. But you were.

A good analogy is this: if a man gets struck by lightning while sitting in his home, then that is bad luck. If a man gets struck by lightning while standing in a field during a storm... not bad luck. But even here, bad luck is merely what we call the arbitrary bad event. It is not really a thing in itself.

Answer 3

Bad luck is a function of probability. If for a single activity the odds of a positive outcome are 99% and a negative outcome is 1%, having the negative outcome occur is bad luck. However, it is only possible to declare bad luck in hindsight, after a result occurs that can be quantified through probability and statistics.

In another sense, bad luck (ie. I have bad luck today trying to score baskets in basketball) can be attributed to a poor mindset, low self-confidence, and the concept of "self-fulfilling prophecy".

Answer 4

Yes and no.

If 32 people flip coins five times, odds are one will get five heads and one will get five tails. Supposing that we consider "heads" to be a "lucky" outcome (perhaps you're paying money for heads), obviously the five-heads flipper was luckier than the five-tails person.

However, neither person has inherent "bad luck". If you run the experiment a second time, the five-heads person isn't any more likely to get heads than the five-tails guy in the second experiment.

So yes, good things and bad things do happen as a matter of luck, but nobody is doomed to have "bad luck" in advance.

Answer 5

Everything follows a statistical curve of chance, the math minded of us will always remind. So, perhaps, bad luck represent the trenches and good luck the peaks of the curve plotted, if we graphed life events according to their desired outcomes. The 'bad luck' which gave us pain' and the 'good luck' which gave us the opposite, pleasure, joy, satisfaction etc.

But there is a lot of truth in the saying : 'Luck is what we make it.' The so-called 'bad-luck' could be the learning curves we need to make to change it into 'good luck'.

Good luck in your good luck !

Answer 6

Yes, it does. However the importance thing is not whether we'll run into bad luck from time to time, we will, but it's how we deal with it.

Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder lost their sight but they did not let blindness get in their way of their musical careers. Former Senator Max Cleland lost both of his legs in Vietnam but that didn't stop him from pursuing politics and public service.

Answer 7

Only good luck, bad luck is when you don't have good luck!0!

Answer 8

Not really; there is only random chance and probability.

Luck is just luck - good or bad.

Answer 9

No.
It's the law of attraction.
You bring your own, "luck"
based on your thoughts.
Look up the Secret, Laws of Attraction on you tube.
An excellent video and also a book.
That's what you need to look into.
Everything is explained there.
God Bless!!

Answer 10

Are you aware of something people call the Law of Attraction? That your thoughts become words, your words become actions and your actions become habits and your habits become character? Yes, I believe people can create their "bad luck" or manifest negativity in their lives.