Taylor Swift Has a Lucky Number. And She's Not the Only High Performer Who Leans Into Superstitions to Boost Confidence.

People reports that Chiefs prima Travis Kelce conscionable attended his 13th capacity of Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour, and nan value of that number is mislaid connected nary one.

Swift is simply a large instrumentality of nan number 13 — truthful overmuch truthful that earlier each show she paints a 13 connected her manus for bully luck. Why are those digits truthful adjacent and beloved to her heart?

Swift was calved connected December 13, 1989, and explained successful an question and reply pinch MTV News: "I turned 13 connected Friday nan 13th. My first medium went golden successful 13 weeks. My first No. 1 opus had a 13-second intro. Every clip I've won an grant I've been seated successful either nan 13th seat, nan 13th row, nan 13th conception aliases statement M, which is nan 13th letter. Basically, whenever a 13 comes up successful my life, it's a bully thing."

Swift isn't nan only 1 who leans into superstitions to springiness herself an other boost of confidence. In nan book Recipes for Good Luck, writer Ellen Weinstein researched nan superstitions and rituals of immoderate of nan astir celebrated and successful group successful modern history. And while immoderate mightiness look overseas aliases silly to others, Weinstein writes that beliefs, rituals and routines tin "help you look nan world pinch ambition and assurance and animate you to spell connected making bully luck of your own."

Here are immoderate different superstars who utilized pre-performance rituals to get fresh to go.

• During his playing days, NBA superstar Michael Jordan wore UNC shorts underneath his Chicago Bulls uniform. They were nan aforesaid shorts he wore successful 1982 erstwhile he scored nan winning jump changeable that brought his assemblage team, nan University of North Carolina Tar Heels, their first NCAA title since 1957.
• Tennis awesome Serena Williams has respective unique pre-performance and on-court rituals: earlier a match, she'd necktie her shoelaces successful nan nonstop aforesaid measurement and ever bounced nan shot 5 times earlier her first service and doubly earlier her second.
• Before opening nan opening speech of her erstwhile talk show, Ellen DeGeneres would beryllium judge to propulsion a mint successful nan aerial and drawback it successful her mouth.
• Rihanna has said that she doesn't let thing yellowish successful her dressing room earlier a show, believing it is bad luck.
• Soccer fable David Beckham has a point against overseas numbers. His woman Victoria told The Chicago Sun-Times that their location had respective refrigerators, each devoted to different types of food. "In nan drinks one, everything is symmetrical," she explained. "If there's 3 cans, he'll propulsion 1 distant because it has to beryllium an moreover number."