Introduction

‘I think luck is the sense to recognise an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Everyone has bad breaks, but everyone also has opportunities.’

SAMUEL GOLDWYN, film producer

Luck exists. It exists everywhere. We use the word all the time but don’t usually give a lot of thought as to what it means in practice. We imply ‘luck’ when we use those old clichés such as ‘Right place, right time’ or ‘Right place, wrong time’ or that classic fatalistic saying ‘It’s not what you know, it’s who you know’. Like most clichés, they do have more than a ring of truth about them. The Luck Habit is about accepting these as partial truisms in the sense that there are aspects of living over which you have no control. However, if you ...

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