How to Get Lucky: 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life's good breaks

Most people imagine that you're born lucky or you get lucky.

Max Gunther shows you how you get lucky.

The fact is that some people really are luckier than others and not by accident. Lucky people arrange their lives in characteristic patterns. They tend to position themselves in the path of onrushing luck; they tend to go where events are moving fastest and where they can find their lucky break. Lucky people take risks but not silly ones. They stick with a cause, a job, or a partner, but not when all hope is lost. In short, they move with life, not against it.

This book gives you thirteen different techniques by which you can discover and take advantage of life's good breaks, while minimizing the effects of its bad ones.

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How to Get Lucky: 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life's good breaks

Most people imagine that you're born lucky or you get lucky.

Max Gunther shows you how you get lucky.

The fact is that some people really are luckier than others and not by accident. Lucky people arrange their lives in characteristic patterns. They tend to position themselves in the path of onrushing luck; they tend to go where events are moving fastest and where they can find their lucky break. Lucky people take risks but not silly ones. They stick with a cause, a job, or a partner, but not when all hope is lost. In short, they move with life, not against it.

This book gives you thirteen different techniques by which you can discover and take advantage of life's good breaks, while minimizing the effects of its bad ones.

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How to Get Lucky: 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life's good breaks

How to Get Lucky: 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life's good breaks

by Max Gunther
How to Get Lucky: 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life's good breaks

How to Get Lucky: 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life's good breaks

by Max Gunther

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Overview

Most people imagine that you're born lucky or you get lucky.

Max Gunther shows you how you get lucky.

The fact is that some people really are luckier than others and not by accident. Lucky people arrange their lives in characteristic patterns. They tend to position themselves in the path of onrushing luck; they tend to go where events are moving fastest and where they can find their lucky break. Lucky people take risks but not silly ones. They stick with a cause, a job, or a partner, but not when all hope is lost. In short, they move with life, not against it.

This book gives you thirteen different techniques by which you can discover and take advantage of life's good breaks, while minimizing the effects of its bad ones.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781906659981
Publisher: Harriman House Publishing
Publication date: 07/28/2010
Pages: 163
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Max Gunther was born in England and emigrated to the US when he was 11. He attended schools in New Jersey and received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1949. He served in the U.S. Army in 1950-51 and was a staff member of Business Week from 1951 to 1955. He then served as a contributing editor of Time for two years. His articles were published in several magazines and he wrote several books, inlucidng The Luck Factor (9781906659493), How to Get Lucky (9781906659981) and The Zurich Axioms (9781897597491). He is very lucky.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note vii

Part I The Commanding Factor 1

The Supreme Insult 3

The Factor Nobody Talks About 7

Part II The Techniques of Lucky Positioning 13

The First Techniques: Making the Luck/Planning Distinction 16

The Second Technique: Finding the Fast Flow 32

The Third Technique: Risk Spooning 44

The Fourth Technique: Run Cutting 63

The Fifth Technique: Luck Selection 71

The Sixth Technique: The Zigzag Path 79

The Seventh Technique: Constructive Supernaturalism 86

The Eighth Technique: Worst-Case Analysis 95

The Ninth Technique: The Closed Mouth 103

The Tenth Technique: Recognizing a Nonlesson 116

The Eleventh Technique: Accepting an Unfair Universe 123

The Twelfth Technique: The Juggling Act 133

The Thirteenth Technique: Destiny Pairing 144

Getting Lucky: Putting the Thirteen Techniques Together 155

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