'Believe in yourself': Christchurch man could be world's luckiest

  • 16/10/2018

Self-actualisation is the idea that you can become whatever you want simply by believing it's possible.

Adherents say it's not the hand life deals you, but how you play the cards. They believe they can create their own happiness, wealth - and even their own luck.

A Christchurch man says his belief in luck has led him to find 17 lost smartphones, expensive jewellery and no fewer than 63 wallets. He's even won first division Lotto.

Dean Harrison told The Project he hasn't always been lucky. While living in Perth he had an old car that needed a new alternator and kept breaking down.

He started listening to tapes in his car about improving your life, and decided he would start writing down his goals and "being lucky."

"I knew I needed $80 for an alternator. I drove out and push-started my car on to the motorway. I drive out and at about 120km/h I spotted what looked like a wallet on the road. I swerved over and picked it up, and there was $85 cash, no ID, nothing else."

He remembers it being the first conscious time he was lucky, and the only wallet of the 63 he has found in his life that he didn't return.

Mr Harrison's had bad luck as well, or as he calls it the "shit to fun ratio".

"I just had a double retinal detachment, both my eyes failed and I was blind for eight days. It took me three months to recover and a lot of time for retrospection."

As for winning first division Lotto in 2003, he says it was no surprise.

"I'd always known that I would win Lotto and I had been saying it for years. You've just got to believe it."

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