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Publisher's
Information: Is luck
just fate, or can you change it?
A groundbreaking new scientific study of
the phenomenon of luck—and the ways we can bring good luck into our
lives. What is luck? A psychic gift or a question of intelligence? And
what is it that lucky people have that unlucky people lack? Psychologist
Dr. Richard Wiseman put luck under a scientific microscope for the very
first time, examining the different ways in which lucky and unlucky people
think and behave. After three years of intensive interviews and
experiments with over 400 volunteers, Wiseman arrived at an astonishing
conclusion: Luck is something that can be learned. It is available to
anyone willing to pay attention to the Four Essential Principles:
- Creating Chance Opportunities
- Thinking Lucky
- Feeling Lucky
- Denying Fate
Readers can determine their capacity for
luck as well as learn to change their luck through helpful exercises that
appear throughout the book. Illustrated with anecdotes from the lives of
the famous such as Harry Truman and Warren Buffett, The Luck Factor also
richly portrays the lives of ordinary people who have been extraordinarily
lucky or unlucky. Finally Dr. Wiseman gives us a look into “The Luck
School” where he instructs unlucky people and also teaches lucky people
how to further enhance their luck.
Smart, enlightening, fun to read, and easy
to follow, The Luck Factor will give you revolutionary insight into the
lucky mind and could, quite simply, change your life.
Pat's Comments:
Reading The Luck Factor is reading an overwhelmingly supportive
case for using creative visualization! Page after page of statistical
evidence that our thoughts, feelings and expectations do indeed play a
powerful role in creating our future. In fact, Wiseman points out (on page
127) that, "During my research, lucky people often spoke about how
they visualize themselves experiencing good fortune." He then goes on
to recommend the reader try an exercise in creative visualization.
Many years ago, after learning to use
creative visualization, I changed--in all areas of my life--from being a
relatively unlucky person to being a very lucky one. Each of the Four
Principles of Luck that Wiseman outlines in his book directly relate to
similar or identical principles that help to make creative visualization
work so powerfully: learning how to see opportunities, receiving intuitive
guidance, focusing on a goal with expectation, and recognizing the gifts
of blockages and barriers. Simply reading this book with it's message (and
reinforcing data) that the mind plays the most important role of all in
the creation of reality can increase your success (or as Wiseman would
say, your LUCK) exponentially.
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