Luck Factor : Changing Your Luck, Changing Your Life - The Four Essential Principles

by Wiseman, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780786869145
• ISBN10: 0786869143
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-02
• Publisher: Miamax

Summary

A groundbreaking new scientific study of the phenomenon of luck -- and the ways we can bring good luck into our lives. What is luck? A psychic gift or a question of intelligence? And what is it that lucky people have that unlucky people lack? Psychologist Dr. Richard Wiseman put luck under a scientific microscope for the very first time, examining the different ways in which lucky and unlucky people think and behave. After three years of intensive interviews and experiments with over 400 volunteers, Wiseman arrived at an astonishing conclusion: Luck is something that can be learned. It is available to anyone willing to pay attention to the Four Essential Principles: Creating Chance Opportunities. Thinking Lucky. Feeling Lucky. Denying Fate. Readers can determine their capacity for luck as well as learn to change their luck through helpful exercises that appear throughout the book. Illustrated with anecdotes from the lives of the famous such as Harry Truman and Warren Buffett, The Luck Factor also richly portrays the lives of ordinary people who have been extraordinarily lucky or unlucky. Finally Dr. Wiseman gives us a look into "The Luck School" where he instructs unlucky people and also teaches lucky people how to further enhance their luck. Smart, enlightening, fun to read, and easy to follow, The Luck Factor will give you revolutionary insight into the lucky mind and could, quite simply, change your life. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Dr. Richard Wiseman heads a research unit within the psychology department at the University of Herfordshire in Britain and was recently given the prestigious CSICOP Public Education in Science Award

Table of Contents

Introduction	xiii
Your Luck Journal	xvii
Section One: Initial Research
The Power of Luck	3	(10)
Lucky and Unlucky Lives	13	(18)
Section Two: The Four Principles of Luck
Principle One: Maximize Your Chance Opportunities	31	(32)
Principle Two: Listen to Your Lucky Hunches	63	(26)
Principle Three: Expect Good Fortune	89	(39)
Principle Four: Turn Bad Luck Into Good	128	(37)
Section Three: Creating Luckier Lives
Luck School	165	(5)
Learning to Be Lucky	170	(6)
Graduation Day	176	(19)
Appendix A	195	(2)
Appendix B	197	(2)
Notes	199