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The Luck Factor
- The Scientific Study of the Lucky Mind
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
Why do some people lead happy, successful lives whilst others face repeated failure and sadness? Why do some find their perfect partners whilst others stagger from one broken relationship to the next? What enables some people to have successful careers whilst others find themselves trapped in jobs they detest? And can unlucky people do anything to improve their luck - and lives?
Ten years ago, Professor Richard Wiseman decided to search for the elusive luck factor by investigating the actual beliefs and experiences of lucky and unlucky people. The results reveal a radical new way of looking at luck.
In this audiobook Wiseman identifies the four simple behavioural techniques that have been scientifically proven to help you attract good fortune. He then shows how you can use these methods to revolutionise every area of your life - including your relationships, personal finances and career.
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- Mr Chops
- 27-02-19
Not about Luck at all!
Firstly this book is not about luck at all. Luck is a random event happening. A lucky person rolls a 6, consistently calls the toss of a coin correctly or chooses the correct number in roulette. I guarantee none of the ‘lucky’ people in this book have any more ability to do these things than the unlucky people sampled for this book. Luck is outside of your control.
This book is actually about influencing success - in business, relationships, making money and correct decisions. This is very much within peoples influence.
There have already been hundreds of self help books written on these topics providing the same answers supposedly ‘discovered’ by Wiseman:
Do you think it is better to
1. have a positive, optimistic attitude or a negative one?
2. socialise and network or be introverted ?
If you know the answers to these questions you may not be as impressed by this ‘research’ as you hoped
Finally mr Wiseman could could use a decent statistician to help him understand his results. For instance, if your last three holidays were terrible, would you expect your next one to be brilliant? Probably not, this is just pattern spotting. It could be down to a number of genetic factors such as poor location, companion selection abilities etc however for Wiseman it is just your expectation that is the cause. He is confusing cause and effect. A series of good holidays make you expect a good holiday, but if you have always had rubbish holidays in the past just convincing yourself the next one is going to be amazing may well not be sufficient to ensure it is.
I like the narrator though!
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- Sam Gamgee
- 22-12-15
A short paragraph of common sense padded out .
A short paragraph of common sense padded out with woo, a lot of self promotion and '100's of scientific studies' which in reality seems to be only a few flakey and fake sounding people mentioned over and over again. Wiseman is the master magician, putting on a show with little substance when you examine it too closely .
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- Amazon Customer
- 28-06-18
Stating the obvious for hours on end
Some people are lucky. Others are not. That's essentially what the book says. Thanks. I gave this book several hours of my time, but learned nothing. I kept thinking that it would eventually get round to telling me something about how people can challenge their "luck status", but it seemed to consist of endless illustrations of some people being lucky and others being unlucky. I got bored and gave up... and I'm a patient person.
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- SHOPPER
- 06-09-18
great message however
very repetative on individuals accounts of how it helped them. Great to know...but so many...you get the message of the book early and it's a great one and then the meat of the book is theses examples, the end 45 mins was great like the beginning but I nearly didn't bother and would have missed out. Really unlike me to almost not finish a book. An amazing author though and has written some incredible books without any dragging on surprisingly for a short book. Read this defo, but do bear this in mind so you get the end new insights in discovery, they were great
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- C. A.
- 18-02-18
Very transformational.
I loved it. Finished listening to it within few days. This could change you forever.
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- R.Millar
- 06-06-16
The Best Luck I've had!
This book is fantastic. It's a good listen. Made my two week trip to and from work enlightening!
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- Andrei
- 15-05-19
Brilliant
Very well written and documented.
It is as scientific as it is mesmerizing with a lot of stories and interesting studies.
The narrator is one of the most talented in this field and makes listening to this book a fantastic experience.
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- Steven Smith
- 12-11-15
Really enjoyed it!
What an interesting theory. This book has completely changed my outlook and cannot wait to start living a life full of good luck!
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- Moira Hornik
- 30-06-21
Good but not his best
I enjoyed listening to this but I feel there's a lot about the characters in the experiment and I think that wasn't always actually useful. I think he could have made this book half the length and still got all the points across. Still very interesting.
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- Sylwia
- 27-02-18
Interesting insight.
Loved the performance. The book is read with a lot of passion. It is quite interesting to find out about how luck really works. Would recommend the book to anyone who wants to take their lives into their hands.
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