"Living on hopes without leaving hopes is the only hope"

Article By:Raghava Perraju V

Credits by author:Anonymous research report

Luck!

Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve?

A psychologist says he has discovered the answer. Ten years ago, I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune.

I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me. Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and, over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in experiments.

The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behavior are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not.

I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying: "Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win £250." This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it.

Unlucky people are generally tenser than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected. As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties, intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss out their types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for.

My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing hence opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good.

Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could be used to create good luck. I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person. Dramatic results. These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck. One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier. The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky. Finally, I had found the elusive "luck factor".

Here are Professor Wiseman's four top tips for becoming lucky:

1.Listen to your gut instincts - they are normally right
2.Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine
3.Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well
4.Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call

Luck is very often a self-fulfilling prophecy.

--"Living on hopes without leaving hopes is the only hope"--

How to tie a "TIE"

A vey essential part of getting ready for an interview is to tie a "Tie". The tying of tie is an art and is well practiced mostly all over the too get a professional look. When sit for an interview in any company you are suppose to wear your dress in a very professional way. The dress should be such that it must reflect your professional you through your looks. Generally , any white or light shaded shirt with a black or matching trouser looks good.The belt used must be matching with the color of the trouser . The shoes must be black or matching with the trousers.No sports shoes are generally to be used. Hairs well trimmed looks better and descent. For girls no glittery makeup or jwellery and no fancy hair style is better.The details of how to dress for an interview I will put in a coming article.This article basically is as an help to learn how to tie a "Tie" . There are many techniques for the same . The tutorial is explained through pictures . Five, different techniques are demonstrated.All are equally good and just depends on your choice .So check them out and start practicing it HERE.

Resume Vs CV

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Article Date : 2007-09-10

If you are looking for a job or seeking admission to any educational institution, a resume or a CV can do the trick. If you are puzzled as to whether a CV is more appropriate or a resume, Aashima Sekhri helps you draw differences between the two
All of us, at some point in our lives, have made one or two-pagers on ourselves, maybe for a prospective employer, or maybe for a prospective educational institution we have been looking to join. But do we ever really bother to find out the fine art of writing your life out on a piece of paper in a way to look appealing and interesting to those reading it?

Some of us call it a Curriculum Vitae (CV) and some call it a Resume, but is there any real difference between the two or are they just different terminology comingfrom different parts of the world. Well, that maybe partially correct, but then there are finer differences between the two that set the two apart from each other. Differences in size, shape, function and contents, set it apart to those who wish to be aware.

Resume

“A resume is typically a one pager, which gives the prospective employer an overview of the candidate, whereas a CV is a detailed resume, which gives you much more detail. It is typically around 2-3 pages long and includes details such as details of papers published or projects headed etc.,” says Saumya Sarin, a recruitment consultant with ABC Consulting, a leading recruitment firm in India.

CV

CV, or Curriculum Vitae (a latin word), is an account of your entire education and employment history, translating to 'course of life', and it really is that - a record of your working life so far. Just as in a resume, the CV should include your name, contact information, education, skills and experience. In addition to these basics, a CV must also include research and teaching experience, publications, grants and fellowships, professional associations and licenses, awards and other information relevant to the position you are applying for. To cut a long story short, a CV contains all the details that are omitted from the resume, for the purpose of making it crisp, precise and an overview. It must also include backup documentation such as a copy of a recent publication, in case it is critical to display level of knowledge.

How much is too much information

The goal of a resume is to be able to, briefly and concisely, put across the qualifications and experience of the candidate.“The resume reader should be expected to spend around a minute or so reviewing the resume; this should be the bench-mark of how much to put in a resume,” adds Saumya. A CV, on the other hand, is normally used in academic settings and contains your chronological education history. It also contains your employment history, a list of your published works, or details or projects headed and durations and time periods for which the same continued. The idea is to get an in-depth idea into your knowledge levels.

Practically speaking

“A CV is typically appreciated by an employer who is looking to hire someone with technical skills or someone for a research role, where every little bit of information about the candidate helps ascertain the quality of the candidate,” says Shweta Sood, a business development manager working with Monster India, a leading recruitment firm in India. Since you’re adding that extra piece of information, while making a CV it makes sense to start by making a list of all your background information and then organizing it into categories. Dates anddurations of studies/projects/fellowships undertaken must be mentioned.

The difference between a CV and a resume primarily lies in its length, content and purpose. To put it in a nut shell, a resume focuses on specific achievements and result oriented responsibilities whereas a CV goes into detail with regards to experience / job responsibilities. The idea is to think from the employer’s point of view and identify the level of information he would be looking for while making his decision. It is always better to make both the versions, so that you will always have the correct document to hand out for that all-important interview.