398 - Luck Do you believe in luck? Last Saturday I spent an enjoyable evening with a friend of mine and after dinner, we decided to watch a match of the Italian soccer team we support (AC Milan). The match was unsurprisingly positive for our team and we won 3-0. This had been something heavily unexpected and since it was the first time I watched a match at his home, his father realized that I am a sort of lucky charm. In Italy, this kind of thinking is very common and did not surprise me. I mean, my father would have thought the same thing, and probably me too. We like to believe that the result of something we cannot directly control is somehow related to ourselves. This is an intrinsic aspect of human nature, since we do not want to accept the fact that the majority of things are not controllable. We are victims of events, but it is far simpler to think that everything depends on our actions or what surrounds us. What curios animals we are...