The Formula for Luck


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If you have ever felt unlucky, The Formula for Luck will teach you skills that are foundational to building a Luck Mindset and that will significantly improve the quality and quantity of your successful outcomes. This book offers readers a clear understanding of the everyday, practical steps they can take toward boosting their luck and changing their lives for the better. Author Stuart Lacey brings a scholar's curiosity and an innovator's creativity to bear on this thorough exploration of the habits, behaviors, and actions we can cultivate and practice in order to increase luck in our lives. The Formula for Luck includes concrete exercises that can be completed as readers progress through the chapters and offers access to a workbook and an entire curriculum for helping teams and communities take charge of their journeys toward amplifying luck.




The Lucky Formula


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Creating Luck


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This charming little book explores how we can create good luck and fortune in our lives. It looks at the three types of energy involved – earth, human and heaven energy. Since all three energies play an equal part in creating our destiny, we must learn how to use the cards we have been dealt to our best advantage. This book will guide you through this process, providing you with a complete formula for creating luck in your life. Full of case studies from Marcio's own clients, Creating Luck introduces feng shui concepts in an accessible manner, looking at each area of a person's living space and what it represents, and detailing how to heal any problem areas and let go of stress as we attract love, success and joy. This book will change the way you see life and give you confidence that you are just where you are supposed to be.




The Success Equation


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In this provocative book, Michael Mauboussin offers the structure needed to analyze the relative importance of skill and luck, offering concrete suggestions for making these insights work to your advantage by making better decisions.




Luck Theory


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This book is an original—the first-ever treatment of the mathematics of Luck. Setting out from the principle that luck can be measured by the gap between reasonable expectation and eventual realization, the book develops step-by-step a mathematical theory that accommodates the entire range of our pre-systematic understanding of the way in which luck functions in human affairs. In so moving from explanatory exposition to mathematical treatment, the book provides a clear and accessible account of the way in which luck assessment enters into the calculations of rational decision theory.




Tough Luck


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Mickey Prada's a nice kid. He works in a neighborhood seafood market in Brooklyn putting fish on ice. He’s got a nice girlfriend. He even delayed college a year, to help his sick dad. But Mickey’s got a problem. A customer at the fish store, Angelo Santoro, keeps asking Mickey to place bets for him and Angelo keeps losing. As Angelo gets further in the hole, his bad luck is turning out to be Mickey’s too. Now Mickey’s got his bookie after him and Angelo’s showing him the butt of his pistol rather than paying him back. So when his best friend, Chris, asks Mickey to join him on a can’t-lose caper, Mickey decides to go along. But, surefire schemes often have a way of backfiring, and this one is sending Mickey into an uncharted part of Brooklyn, where fish like Chris and Mickey have trouble just staying alive.




Attract Good Luck


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If you think that some people are just born lucky, think again. Now, it is true that some people are exposed to more opportunity. The more exposure to opportunity, the more chances you have to turn it into luck. On the other hand, some people who are exposed to many more opportunities are not lucky because they do not take action. Others are exposed to a lot of opportunities, but they can't actually see the opportunity that is in front of them. Still another group of people do see the opportunity in front of them; they desperately would like to take action, but they are just not in a position in their life that allows them to grab it. Or at least that is what their mind is telling them. They feel they are lacking in the resources of, say, time or money to take action on opportunities. And then yet a whole other group of people does have the resources of time and money, but they refuse to act because of their fear. They are skeptical. It seems too good to be true or that good things like this just don't happen to them, so they choose to do nothing. In this book, we're going to address these patterns of behavior. Because the fact of the matter is, you already are lucky, you just aren't in touch with what you are capable of yet. When you reach the end of this book, you are going to have created a completely different idea about yourself and the luck you can create. You are going to feel empowered and lucky. We're going to go over the many different areas you can work on to increase your probability of luck. It's really pretty scientific. There are many ways to increase your luck. You are going to learn the exact formula to increase your luck. It's a no-fail system and it will work for you as it has worked for me and countless others.




Lucky Beans


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2010 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing (New York Public Library) 2012-2013 Show Me Readers Nominee List (Missouri) 2013 Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award 2010 Smithsonian Magazine Notable Books for Children Like so many people during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Marshall Loman's dad has lost his job. There's little money, but there are plenty of beans-in fact, Ma cooks them for supper every single night! Beans start looking better when Marshall sees the contest posted in the furniture store window. HOW MANY BEANS ARE IN THE JAR? WIN THIS BRAND NEW SEWING MACHINE! Ma needs that sewing machine-but how can Lomans possibly guess right? Then Marshall remembers something he learned in arithmetic class. Becky Birtha's engaging story, based on her grandmother's memories of Depression years in the African American community, is illustrated by Nicole Tadgell's expressive paintings.




The Perfect Bet


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"An elegant and amusing account" of how gambling has been reshaped by the application of science and revealed the truth behind a lucky bet (Wall Street Journal). For the past 500 years, gamblers-led by mathematicians and scientists-have been trying to figure out how to pull the rug out from under Lady Luck. In The Perfect Bet, mathematician and award-winning writer Adam Kucharski tells the astonishing story of how the experts have succeeded, revolutionizing mathematics and science in the process. The house can seem unbeatable. Kucharski shows us just why it isn't. Even better, he demonstrates how the search for the perfect bet has been crucial for the scientific pursuit of a better world.




Health, Luck, and Justice


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"Luck egalitarianism"--the idea that justice requires correcting disadvantages resulting from brute luck--has gained ground in recent years and is now the main rival to John Rawls's theory of distributive justice. Health, Luck, and Justice is the first attempt to systematically apply luck egalitarianism to the just distribution of health and health care. Challenging Rawlsian approaches to health policy, Shlomi Segall develops an account of just health that is sensitive to considerations of luck and personal responsibility, arguing that people's health and the health care they receive are just only when society works to neutralize the effects of bad luck. Combining philosophical analysis with a discussion of real-life public health issues, Health, Luck, and Justice addresses key questions: What is owed to patients who are in some way responsible for their own medical conditions? Could inequalities in health and life expectancy be just even when they are solely determined by the "natural lottery" of genes and other such factors? And is it just to allow political borders to affect the quality of health care and the distribution of health? Is it right, on the one hand, to break up national health care systems in multicultural societies? And, on the other hand, should our obligation to curb disparities in health extend beyond the nation-state? By focusing on the ways health is affected by the moral arbitrariness of luck, Health, Luck, and Justice provides an important new perspective on the ethics of national and international health policy.