How to get lucky : 13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life's good breaks / by Max Gunther.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Gunther, Max, 1927- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Success.
• Fortune.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Petersfield, Hampshire, Great Britain : Harriman House, 2010.

Summary:

Most people imagine that you're born lucky or you get lucky. This book shows you how you get lucky. It 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. 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.

Contents:

Editor's NotePart 1: The Commanding FactorThe Supreme InsultThe Factor Nobody Talks AboutPart 2: The Techniques of Lucky PositioningThe First Technique: Making the Luck/Planning DistinctionThe Second Technique: Finding the Fast FlowThe Third Technique: Risk SpooningThe Fourth Technique: Run CuttingThe Fifth Technique: Luck SelectionThe Sixth Technique: The Zigzag PathThe Seventh Technique: Constructive SupernaturalismThe Eighth Technique: Worst-Case AnalysisThe Ninth Technique: The Closed MouthThe Tenth Technique: Recognising a NonlessonThe Eleventh Technique: Accepting an Unfair UniverseThe Twelfth Technique: The Juggling ActThe Thirteenth Technique: Destiny PairingGetting Lucky: Putting the Thirteen Techniques Together

Notes:

• Includes index.
• First published in 1986.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 16, 2015).

ISBN:

• 9786612917820
• 1-282-91782-X
• 1-4416-8037-3
• 0-85719-043-1