Max Gunther's lost classic brought back into print.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 minimising the effects of its bad ones.
In short, they move with life, not against it. This book gives you 13 different techniques by which you can discover and take advantage of life's good breaks, while minimising the effects of its bad ones.
How do you change your luck?
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.
Get Lucky is the indispensable resource for anyone who wants to learn this skill and to make serendipity work for them. Praise For Get Lucky "You've heard the old saw, 'Chance favors prepared minds.' Well, Get Lucky is the mind-preparer.
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He then shows you how you can use this approach to improve your luck and turn your fortune around. This book is a must-read for anyone who wants to change their luck -- for the better!
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