What makes some people 100% more likely to win the lottery than others?

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Famous author Dale Carnegie, author of "How To Win Friends & Influence People," gave some interesting views on one of the lottery skills you need to win   Photo: Supplied

I'm amazed at how winning the lottery and being successful in real life are so similar. They both use the same skills.

Take a look at the 3 most important traits you need as a lottery player:

- Big winners and successful people are persistent. There are countless examples of people who achieve success on a huge scale. And they do it through dogged persistence.

Colonel Sanders and his Kentucky Fried Chicken are a great example of persistence for success   Photo: Supplied

They may be simple folk, yet they have succeeded beyond belief simply by continuing to do what they're good at. In a lotto game, it is also persistence that eventually wins out.

Dale Carnegie, author of "How To Win Friends & Influence People" said:

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." – Dale Carnegie

- Success is not that easy. That's because there is no one single rule.

In fact, many people who have examined the path that millionaires take have found a huge difference in the way they earn their fortune.

Most successes are built up from a number of different skills.

As actress Sophia Loren pointed out: "Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."

Actress Sophia Loren pictured in 1959   Photo: Wikipedia

You might even say that these talents represent lottery games, and so you can never be sure which balls will roll down the chute to the winning path.

- Winners travel the same path: Along with persistence is continuity... the successful do the same thing year after year.

Benjamin Disraeli: "The secret of success is constancy of purpose."

In lotto these are the players who play the same numbers, week after week, until luck catches up with them.

So there's three examples of success: persistence, talent selection, determination.

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