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

Lucky people, as a breed, are able to live with the knowledge that some decisions will turn out wrong.

“A superstition won’t do you any harm as long as you don’t use it as a substitute for thinking,”

The First Technique: Making the Luck/Planning Distinction

One reason why luck selection is so difficult for most people is that it almost always involves the need to abandon part of an investment.

is essential to take risks. Examine the life of any lucky man or woman, and you are all but certain to find that he or she was willing, at some point, to take a risk. Without that willingness, hardly anything interesting is likely to happen to you.

The connection in my opinion is that a supernatural belief, even a trivial and humorous one, helps people get lucky by helping them make otherwise impossible choices.

Nonlessons often grow out of unwarranted generalizations.

The Fourth Technique: Run Cutting

How can you tell whether a historical outcome was caused by luck or by something more reliable, such as a person’s character? One good way is to ask whether there are clearly visible links of cause and effect.