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Mo's Law is an adage or epigram which takes an optimist's view on the axioms of Murphy's Law and Sod's Law. Murphy's Law declares that "everything that can go wrong, will go wrong (eventually)", and Sod's law guarantees that "things always go wrong with the worst possible outcome". Mo's Law appends a countering addendum, by saying "everything that can go wrong, will go wrong in the worst possible way, but if you make the best of it, things will go right." Or, more succinctly stated, "Hope for the best, expect the worst, but make the best of it either way".

The phrase is derived from the belief most events in one's life are uncorrelated, and that the outcome of an event is neither positive nor negative by nature. Instead, the sentiment of a consequence is determined only by one's reaction to it. If one embraces an unfavorable event and reacts with positivity, this optimistic frame of reference may result in them experiencing future neutral, or even negative, events as favorable. Meanwhile, dwelling on pessimism, fear, or anger will push one's perceived experience further into negativity.

History
Mo's Law was coined in Berlin by Ema Raven and Mohit Nalavadi in early October 2018, when Mohit experienced a string of unfavorable events while attempting to catch a flight. Despite missing a train by seconds, getting fined for having an expired train ticket, and forgetting some of his lunch with Ema, he was still able to secure a window seat on his flight.

Mathematical Basis
Some proponents suggest that the logic of Mo's Law can find its supporting evidence probability theory through the Central Limit Theorem (CLT). CLT establishes that, in some situations, when independent random variables are added, their properly normalized sum tends toward a normal distribution (informally a "bell curve"), centered on 0, even if the original variables themselves are not normally distributed. If the random events are the events of one's life, then a mean of 0 can be analogous to a neutral sentiment. Any positivity brought to the situation is that derived from the person who is subject to those events, rather than the events themselves. Thus, the perceived sentiment of a series of events can be shifted away from neutrality by the subject's reactions. It should be noted that this theory has no scientific basis and is considered pseudoscience. Proponents of the CLT basis of Mo's Law have been criticized for their misuse of scientific concepts.