Lucky Socks As A Sort Of Metaphor

 Apparently anything, even a superstition, can be made into a product and sold.

Grab Your Lucky Socks; We’re Talking Fan Superstitions and the Psychology Behind Them   

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That is just one example from all of the material available about how people use magical thinking about sports.  Most of the material I read was from the fan's point of view.  I was under the impression that it was the players that had the lucky socks to help them win.  My theory is that it began with players and continues for fans.

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To broaden the idea a little, I was thinking of a little joke I have about the things I do.  I like to have the dishes washed and everything in the room where I paint just so, before I can settle down and put my mind to the paint.

It's the same with writing.  I call it wearing my lucky socks to approach it the same each time.  It's calming I guess.  It's also a little, um, something else, maybe.

Seems like there are two main ways lucky socks could work.

One, it's a flat out superstition.  Sympathetic magic.  If I had blue socks on the night my team won, and I wear blue socks each time there is a game, well then, they will win again.  Rules of magic, it is.  As anyone knows more than I do, there are many superstitions of the same kind.  

Two, it's just the restfulness of habit.  If I feel comfortable in my 'blue socks' I might just do a better job of whatever.  I guess it could just be an outward and visible sign of a centered and ready state.