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How to Get Lucky13 techniques for discovering and taking advantage of life's good breaksby Max Gunther
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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 Note
Part 1: The Commanding Factor
The Supreme Insult
The Factor Nobody Talks About
Part 2: The Techniques of Lucky Positioning
The First Technique: Making the Luck/Planning Distinction
The Second Technique: Finding the Fast Flow
The Third Technique: Risk Spooning
The Fourth Technique: Run Cutting
The Fifth Technique: Luck Selection
The Sixth Technique: The Zigzag Path
The Seventh Technique: Constructive Supernaturalism
The Eighth Technique: Worst-Case Analysis
The Ninth Technique: The Closed Mouth
The Tenth Technique: Recognising a Nonlesson
The Eleventh Technique: Accepting an Unfair Universe
The Twelfth Technique: The Juggling Act
The Thirteenth Technique: Destiny Pairing
Getting Lucky: Putting the Thirteen Techniques Together
About the author
| Max Gunther was born in England and emigrated to the US when he was 11. He attended schools in New Jersey and received his B.A. from Princeton University in 1949. He served in the U.S. Army in 1950-51 and was a staff member of Business Week from 1951 to 1955. He then served as a contributing editor of Time for two years. His articles were published in several magazines and he wrote several books, inlucidng The Luck Factor (9781906659493), How to Get Lucky (9781906659981) and The Zurich Axioms (9781897597491). He is very lucky. |  |
More about Max Gunther
Other books by Max Gunther
 | Instant Millionaires The Secrets of Overnight Success |
 | The Very, Very Rich and How They Got That Way The spectacular success stories of 15 men who made it to the very, very top |
 | Luck Factor Why Some People Are Luckier Than Others and How You Can Become One of Them |
 | Zurich Axioms The rules of risk and reward used by generations of Swiss bankers |
 | The Luck Factor Why Some People Are Luckier Than Others and How You Can Become One of Them |
 | The Zurich Axioms The rules of risk and reward used by generations of Swiss bankers |
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