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How Your Superstitious Beliefs Are Costing You Money

The other day I was browsing through the beautiful photos posted online from the ESPN magazine “Body Issue,” when I came across this quotation from Tyler Seguin, who plays hockey for the Dallas Stars:

I’m anti-superstitious. If I tape my stick one way and then go out and get a hat trick, the next game I’m going to tape my stick a different way. I always want to tell myself, ‘It’s not because of that’ — I can change everything and leave it all on me. The superstitious guys on the team think I’m a weird bird.