The Luck Factor  (English, Paperback, Wiseman Richard)

The Luck Factor: Four Simple Principles That Will Change Your Luck And Your Life analyzes the phenomenon of luck, and lucky and unlucky people, to come up with four steps to improve your luck.

Summary Of The Book

Some people are extraordinarily lucky, while some people seem have no luck at all. Some people seem to meet the right people at the right time, whereas others seem to have missed out on numerous opportunities. Some people have long streaks of unfortunate incidents which are beyond their control, but affect them detrimentally. The Luck Factor: Four Simple Principles That Will Change Your Luck And Your Life helps us understand why people are lucky and unlucky.

The Luck Factor: Four Simple Principles That Will Change Your Luck And Your Life is the result of years of research on the phenomenon of luck. After interviewing and experimenting on over 400 volunteers, Richard Wiseman analyzes the way lucky and unlucky people behave for three years, and combines this with his specialized training in Psychology, to come up with principles one can use to drastically improve their luck.

In this book, the author narrates anecdotes from the lives of famous people such as Warren Buffet and Harry Truman. He also narrates incidents from the lives of normal people who are astonishingly lucky or unlucky. The book also gives readers a way to calculate their capacity for luck. Tips are also provided for lucky people to enhance their luck, and for unlucky people to drastically change their luck.

From his exhaustive research, Wiseman has theorized that luck is something which can be learnt. He gives four principles for readers to improve their luck. These include Creating Chance Opportunities, Thinking Lucky, Feeling Lucky, and Denying Fate.

The Luck Factor: Four Simple Principles That Will Change Your Luck And Your Life is written in a smart and intelligent way.

About Richard Wiseman

Richard Wiseman is a professor and psychologist.

He has written books like Paranormality: Why We Believe The Impossible, Rip It Up: The Radically New Approach To Changing Your Life, Quirkology, Magic In Theory: An Introduction To The Theoretical And Psychological Elements Of Conjuring, and 59 Seconds: Think A Little, Change A Lot.

Richard Wiseman works at the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom as the Professor of the Public Understanding of Psychology. He was a magician before he graduated from University College London and completed his Ph.D from University of Edinburgh, both in Psychology.

He has won many awards, these include the NESTA Dream Time Fellowship in 2004, the British Science Association Joseph Lister Award in 2002, and the CSICOP Public Education in Science Award in 2000. Robert Wiseman contributes regularly to The Times, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph.