How to Get Lucky: 13 Techniques for Discovering and Taking Advantage of Life's Good Breaks

by Gunther, Max

• ISBN13: 9781906659981
• ISBN10: 1906659982
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-07-28
• Publisher: Harriman House

Summary

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 mate, 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 minimising the effects of its bad ones.

Author Biography

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	p. vii
The Commanding Factor	p. 1
The Supreme Insult	p. 3
The Factor Nobody Talks About	p. 7
The Techniques of Lucky Positioning	p. 13
The First Techniques: Making the Luck/Planning Distinction	p. 16
The Second Technique: Finding the Fast Flow	p. 32
The Third Technique: Risk Spooning	p. 44
The Fourth Technique: Run Cutting	p. 63
The Fifth Technique: Luck Selection	p. 71
The Sixth Technique: The Zigzag Path	p. 79
The Seventh Technique: Constructive Supernaturalism	p. 86
The Eighth Technique: Worst-Case Analysis	p. 95
The Ninth Technique: The Closed Mouth	p. 103
The Tenth Technique: Recognizing a Nonlesson	p. 116
The Eleventh Technique: Accepting an Unfair Universe	p. 123
The Twelfth Technique: The Juggling Act	p. 133
The Thirteenth Technique: Destiny Pairing	p. 144
Getting Lucky: Putting the Thirteen Techniques Together	p. 155
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