10 _News from Nowhere
18 _ Intro _ Why Being Alive Is Exciting _ Jean Borg
20_ Luck _ Before Talking About Genetic Fatalism _ Antonia Case
28 _ Relationship _ A Life Owned by Chance _ Patrick Stokes
34 _ Comic _ The Philosophy of Poker _ Corey Moller
38 _ Illusion _ People Fascinated by the Randomness of the Universe _ Marina Benjamin
50 _ Equality _ If luck is uncontrollable anyway _ Tom Chatfield
56 _ Mentor _ Luck composed of positive and negative particles _ DBC Pierre
66 _ Opportunity _ Do you want to be a slave to routine _ Oliver Burkman
74 _ Philosophy _ The Black Swan That Laughs at the Truth _ André Dao
84 _ Psychology _ Was the tragedy of Oedipus inevitable? _ Damon Young
92 _ Thinking _ Luck is ultimately a product of habit _ Will Self
102 _ Morality _ True philosophy is not swayed by misfortune _ Nigel Warburton
116 _ Interview _ The Gambling Dilemma, Freedom and Paternalism _ Jonathan Wolff
126 _ Literature _ How novelists use 'chance' _ John Day
132 _ Fallacy _ Half Luck, Half Probability _ Sacrificial Gamble
140 _ Interview _ Loneliness is proof that you have become distant from yourself _ Jeong Woo-yeol
152 _ Space and _ Hiding anxiety and going to the library _ Im and
160 _ Thinking in pictures _ I sense, therefore I am joyfully _ Park Bona
166 _ Knowledge and Life _ Why We Must Accept Change _ Hwang Jin-gyu
174 _ Our Library

In a world governed by randomness and chance,
_ How to deal with luck that comes as an irresistible force

In Korean, the word 'un' contains both good and bad luck, but in English, the word 'luck' contains both the general meaning of 'un' and the positive meaning of 'luck'.
Just as Koreans are curious about everything from their daily fortune to their entire lives, the curiosity and obsession with human fortune in the West seems to be no different.
According to Littlewood's Law, proposed by British mathematician John Edensor Littlewood, based on the daily activity hours he calculated, most people would experience an event with a probability of one in a million, which they would call a "miracle," about once every 35 days.
But there is one final caveat to this rule.
The point is, we don't know whether that amazing event is lucky, unlucky, or lucky for others but not lucky at all for us.
Reading the various perspectives on 'luck', the keyword for this issue of <New Philosopher>, I came to two major conclusions.
First, although it is an irresistible force beyond human power, good and bad luck can result in different outcomes for us to see now and realize later.
Another conclusion is the positive answer that, while there is no secret to getting lucky, you can expand the area of ​​possibility in which you can receive luck.

Journalist Oliver Berkman points out that when we dream of good luck, we mean achieving what we want, and that the very act of trying to reach a set goal is a desire to control life.
He calls this situation the paradox of luck, and says that if you want to attract more luck into your life, you have to let go of the desire to control your life from the start.
“The only way you can have any real influence on your luck is to let go of your obsession with control and maximize chance.” If you meet more people, go to more places, and aren’t afraid to encounter different situations in life, the odds of you encountering that sudden gift of serendipity—that is, luck—will inevitably increase.
Of course, you have to calmly accept the small misfortunes you will encounter along the way to that good fortune.


We cannot directly influence individual events that bring us luck, but we can broaden the range of events within which luck occurs.
Roberts argues that luck in managing a career is “proportional to the passion you put into your work and the number of people you actually interact with.”
If expressed formally, it can be expressed as 'luck = action × notification'.
(Page 68)


When the paradigm of fortune and misfortune changes
_ Luck composed of positive and negative particles

Certainly, some aspects of life can be changed through individual will and action.
However, the family environment in which one is born and the economic power of the country in which one is born are entirely beyond the control of an individual.
But as we can see from the various news reports, unfortunate incidents and accidents happen to both rich and poor people.
If luck isn't innate or genetic, then what is it?
Richard Wiseman, a professor of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, found that extroverts – people who chat with strangers, smile frequently, and use open body language – have vastly expanded “lucky networks.”
Moreover, we found striking differences in the 'good decision-making' processes of lucky and unlucky people.
The lucky ones are the ones who accept their innermost desires without reservation.
While they soon showed a tendency to rely heavily on intuition and gut feelings, another notable difference was that the unlucky ones often ignored the signals their inner selves were sending.
Novelist DBC Pierre once said, "A free vacation is lucky! A ride on the Titanic is bad luck! And surviving the sinking is even better!" He explained that the particles of positivity and negativity constantly generated in our lives collide, sending signals, and the foam of those crashing waves unfolds before our eyes in various situations.
Even if it seems like bad luck now, when you look back over time, you may realize that maybe that situation was the beginning of good luck.
The important thing is to wisely apply the signals sent by those negative and positive particles to my life.


Luck may be nothing more than an illusion.
Even though we create our own luck to some extent, how that luck unfolds—for better or worse—is largely a matter of judgment.
(Page 25)


"People are less than you think": An interview with psychiatrist Jeong Woo-yeol.
- People who try to hide the fact that they are emotional beings to the core.

The interviewee for this issue is Dr. Woo-Yeol Jeong, a psychiatrist who runs a YouTube channel called 'Psychiatrist Woo-Yeol Jeong' with 230,000 subscribers.
The reason I met a psychiatrist, not a philosopher, is because he is the person who emphasizes the value and importance of 'emotions' more than anyone else and is the one who spreads this message through books, videos, and lectures.
Sartre also defined 'emotions' as the essence of human existence, and even said, 'Man is his emotions.'
Although our society is centered on reason, prioritizing who lives more intelligently and rationally, the emotions that are the source of each individual's emotions are ignored and suppressed, and as a result, negative side effects and negative events continue to occur.

He criticizes our chronic educational atmosphere, which has created a frame where reason is superior and emotions are inferior, and which prioritizes rational development over emotional development, especially during childhood growth and education.
However, if we look into the causes of many crimes and social conflicts, the reasons are diverse, but the fundamental problem is ultimately a problem of emotions. In this day and age, where we do not know how to deal with emotions and live wearing a mask as if unconditionally suppressing them is a virtue, mental wounds and illnesses are bound to increase.

“There’s something I often say.
'People are not as good as you think.' Anyway, since humans are emotional beings, it's probably the same everywhere, but the social atmosphere is being created as if it's right to hide your emotions.
If that happens, the emotions that have accumulated inside will grow, you will lose your own healthy identity, and you will live only pretending to be healthy on the outside, focusing on what is visible.”