Well, think of it this way, maybe it's not random. Maybe...something you see as superstition could be him catching something you can't see.

[ It'll do no good for Alex to get impatient about this; he's aware it sounds crazy, but. ]

Like how some of us can do magic and others can't, it might be he's tapped into a different part of the world, and that's what's telling him to make adjustments.