The Luck Factor: Why Some People Are Luckier Than Others and How You Can Become One of Them

Luck. We can't see it, or touch it, but we can feel it. We all know it when we experience it. It's an obvious description of obvious events. But does it go deeper than this? And if it goes deeper, does it do so in any way we can harness to our own and others' advantage?

Taking us on a richly anecdotal ride through the more popular theories and histories of luck - from pseudoscience to paganism, through mathematics to magic - Max Gunther arrives at a careful set of scientific conclusions as to the nature of luck, and the possibility of managing it.

By drawing out the logical truths hidden in some examples of outrageous fortune (and some of the seemingly absurd theories of its origins), he presents readers with the concise formulae which make up 'The Luck Factor' - the five traits that lucky people have in common. He then goes on to show how anyone can use this approach to improve their own luck.