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

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

As a breed, lucky people tend to be supernaturalists. Some are devoutly religious, while others harbor the most peculiar superstitions.

Nonlessons often grow out of unwarranted generalizations.

The Eighth Technique: Worst-Case Analysis

So find yourself a supernatural guidance system. It can be serious or humorous, a profoundly held belief or a game. None of that matters. Nor does it matter whether the system, in terms of its pronouncements about itself, is “true” or is pure poppycock. As long as it isn’t malevolent or occultic, all that matters is that you hold it and can use it

Leaving part of oneself or one’s money behind is an experience that troubles everybody to some extent, but the chronic loser is troubled more than other men and women.

The Fifth Technique: Luck Selection

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.

By avoiding excessive communication, lucky men and women are freed of the need to explain and justify actions to other people.