The Third Technique: Risk Spooning

The lucky personality gets to know everybody in sight: the rich and the poor, the famous the humble, the sociable and even the friendless and the cranky.

Lucky people always seem to have many ventures going on at the same time.

Avoid wailing yourself into a category:

The Eighth Technique: Worst-Case Analysis

The Seventh Technique: Constructive Supernaturalism

The trick is to know what kind of situation you are in at any given time. Can you rely on your own or others’ planning, or will the outcome be determined by luck?

The lucky approach is to say to yourself, “Okay I’m going to get into this risky situation-this roulette game, this mutual fund investment. But I am not operating under the delusion that planning will make it turn out my way. I see luck looming large in it, so I will be careful not to let myself grow too confident and relaxed. I will expect rapid c

The Thirteenth Technique: Destiny Pairing