Dimensions
136 x 185 x 17mm
From the author of the bestselling 'Worst-Case Scenario' books comes a collection of amazing true luck stories.
Joshua Piven explores and explains incredible stories of luck good and bad, illuminating how factors as wide-ranging as following your hunches, having a wide circle of acquaintances and contacts, and keeping an open mind, make up what we think of as "luck".
We can harness devastatingly bad luck to positive effect, and through luck management we can discover rewarding opportunities and endless possibilities.
'As Luck Would Have It' offers a fascinating survey of the phenomenon, presented through incredible first-person stories: A planeload of marine biologists ditches in a freezing ocean. The pilot's voice in the background of the confused Mayday call leads rescuers to the correct co-ordinates - and all are found alive.
A man who has never played the lottery in his life finds himself, on a whim, blowing the only money in his pocket on tickets. Only when he sees the clerk who sold him his tickets being interviewed on TV as the seller of the winning numbers does he look at the tickets he bought . . .
Also read about the swimming pool repairman who had only a hundred-dollar bill to pay for his hot dog, asked for his change in lottery tickets, and won $180 million; the woman who survived a plane crash at sea; the teller who was struck by lightning while at his window inside the bank; the guy who invented the Pet Rock.
Weaving the subjects' own beliefs about their experiences with compelling research on chance, probability, and luck psychology, the book also includes research on how to prepare for luck, how to deal with it when it arrives, and how to make the choices that will help us benefit from luck.
Mesmerising, by turns hilarious and harrowing, 'As Luck Would Have It' offers a series of scenarios that are at once unimaginable and vividly real.
