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The Luck Factor: Change Your Luck and Change Your Life

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This is definitely an interesting book. It views the 'luck' from a scientific perspective. By having 4 simple principles, everyone can increase the chance of luck. In fact, Dr. Wiseman demonstrates the people with luck having a common set of personalities that lead them to have more opportunities than others. Luck is not from your psychic power, it's more the consequence of how you behave and how you view your daily life.
This book is similar to the "Millionaire Mind" by Dr. Thomas Stanley, which depicts the characteristic of being a millionaire. To be a better luck person, it's simple, just be more positive and using Dr. Wiseman's four principles.

This 10-year study with volunteers reveals that good fortune is not due to talent, hard work or intelligence. This scientific investigation is based upon interviews and experiments with people who consider themselves lucky; the author concludes that luck is a state of mind.

Wiseman identifies four principles that underlie a life of good fortune, adherence to which will draw good luck into the life of the individual. These are 1. The belief that you are lucky. Lucky people create, notice and act upon chance opportunities. They also have a relaxed attitude to life. 2. Lucky people make success happen by using their intuition and gut feelings. 3. One must expect good fortune, hold fast to this belief and persevere in attempting to achieve your goals. 4. Lucky people have a knack for transforming back luck into good luck. One must affirm your good fortune and have a strong conviction that everything will work out for the best.

The text is illustrated by graphs from the research plus some black and white illustrations of playing cards. Overall the conclusions are quite impressive and I find the results of the study very convincing. There are plenty of exercises and the book concludes with notes that include bibliographic references. It is heartening to finally see scientific proof of the claims made by sages and esotericists down the ages.

Great book to read on a 3.5hr flight, because you can read it from start to finish. Full of anectodes and practical exercises. I particularly liked chapter 8, Learning to Be Lucky. An enjoyable and practical book. I liked it and recommend it.

After having read "Did you spot the Gorilla" which was also written by Wisemen I was expecting an easy read that was still well researched and insightful. This book definately filled that criteria.

I have always felt that I've been lucky in life but never really known why. Following a ten year study of many volunteers, wisemen has somewhat solved this mystery for me by scientifically braking down luck into four quantifiable "luck factors". Not only has he done this in a way you can easily understand, but there are also exercises throughout the book that help you determine your own luck factor score. Once you have read through the chapters on each factor, he then proceeds to give you 'real life' ways that you can work and develop these factors to turn you into one of the lucky ones.

The language in this book is very easy to read, so if you're a strong reader you'll easily fly through this book. There are numerous anecdotes from some of the volunteers in his studies that added extra entertainment for me.

I will have to admit that after reading about the factors and the self-improvement section (which were both great), the conclusion seemed to be long-winded, a little repetitive and maybe a bit uneccesary. He seems to really want to nail into you just how super important these factors should be to you and how much you really should try to improve yourself but after a couple of pages of this I found myself slightly skimming the pages just to try and get to the end of it.

Overall a very interesting read and definately worth reading to improve your luck or just for entertainment.