The Luck Factor

Jacket text for The Luck Factor

Max Gunther's classic text brought back into print

Luck. We can't see it, or touch it, but we can feel it. We all know it when we experience it. It's an obvious description of obvious events. But does it go deeper than this? And if it goes deeper, does it do so in any way which we can harness to our own and others' advantage?

Taking us on a richly anecdotal ride through the more popular theories and histories of luck - from pseudoscience to paganism, through mathematicians to magicians - Max Gunther arrives at a careful set of scientific conclusions as to the nature of luck, and the possibility of managing it.

Based entirely on drawing out the logical truths hidden in some examples of outrageous fortune (and some of the seemingly absurd theories of its origins), he presents readers with the concise formulae which make up what he calls "The Luck Factor" - the five traits that lucky people have in common - and shows how anyone can improve their luck.

Chapter headings for The Luck Factor

Editor's Note
The Quest

Part 1: The Breaks
Chapter 1 - The Blessed and the Cursed
Chapter 2 - Two Lives

Part 2: Speculations on the Nature of Luck: Some Scientific Tries
Chapter 1 - The Randomness Theory
Chapter 2 - The Psychic Theories
Chapter 3 - The Synchronicity Theory

Part 3: Speculations on the Nature of Luck: Some Occult and Mystical Tries
Chapter 1 - Numbers
Chapter 2 - Destiny and God
Chapter 3 - Charms, Signs and Portents

Part 4: The Luck Adjustment
The Quest
Chapter 1 - The Spiderweb Structure
Chapter 2 - The Hunching Skill
Chapter 3 - "Audentes Fortuna Juvat"
Chapter 4 - The Ratchet Effect
Chapter 5 - The Pessimism Paradox

About Max Gunther

Max Gunther is the author of several books, including 'The Zurich Axioms' (9781897597491) 'How to Make Your Man More Sensitive' and 'The Very Rich and How They Got That Way'. He is very lucky.

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