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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Going last may boost your odds of getting lucky.
Chapter 3: People prefer familiarity, so looking the part and being in the right spot greatly increases your luck overall.
Chapter 4: We’re wired to favor attractive people, so the beautiful get lots of luck indeed.
Chapter 5: Confidence opens doors to lucky breaks, yet it depends more on social conditioning than we often realize.
Chapter 6: To be genuinely successful, hard work alone won’t suffice; you need several kinds of luck aligned in concert.
Chapter 7: Self-control is a crucial component of success.
Chapter 8: Building connections with others will help create new opportunities.
Chapter 9: Remaining curious about new things will raise your chances of finding luck.
Description
Can You Learn to Be Lucky (2018) explores how unseen biases dictate our personal behavior and world events in ways that are often quite predictable. By understanding the mechanisms behind seemingly lucky events, we can learn how to harness luck to our advantage.
Who Should Listen
- Unlucky people waiting for their big break
- Students of behavioral science
- Anyone who’s ever wondered why some people seem born to succeed