Having experienced St. Patrick’s Day a few weeks ago, you may have heard the phrase “The Luck of the Irish.” Perhaps you know people who say they are naturally lucky or unlucky. Most importantly, do you believe that fortune plays an active role in your life and if so, is there anything you can do to change fate?

Over at Forte Labs, Tiago published a guest post from Nir Eyal, author of the book, Beyond Belief. In the book, Eyal explores whether luck is an actual thing. What he discovered is that it is not a gift or curse from the Gods, but instead a specific way to view and interact with the world. In short, luck is not chance. As he describes in his Forte Labs post.

Dr. Richard Wiseman spent over a decade studying why some people feel perpetually “lucky” while others always feel “unlucky.” His research revealed something startling: so-called lucky individuals don’t actually experience more good fortune. They simply see more of it.

Assuming this is true, Eyal claims there are three specific powers that everyone has to generate their own form of luck. The first one is to increase attention on the world around you by noticing what you see.

Your beliefs act as perceptual filters, determining what information makes it through to your conscious awareness and what gets dismissed as irrelevant.

Lucky people train themselves to look wider. They notice the peripheral. They stay curious about the unexpected.

Beyond the three specific powers (read the post to learn what they are), Eyal lists five practices that will help generate more luck in your life. One of them is to prime your attention daily.

Each morning, ask yourself: What opportunities might I overlook today? This simple question shifts your attentional filter from narrow task-focus to broader opportunity-awareness.

To improve your fortune, learn about the other two powers and the remaining four practices by reading the rest of the post on Forte Labs.