The Luck Factor
After finishing Outliers I felt this was a good next book to pick up.
Where Outliers talks about how most of success is dependent on the opportunities you get in life and it framed a lot it as being lucky in my opinion. The luck factor is about the difference between people that feel they are really lucky in life and those that feel the are unlucky.
Enjoyed this a lot more than Outliers and I think the themes overlaps between the two books and they go in opposite directions.
I much prefer the lesson that Wiseman tries to share in this book. A lot of the book covers how people who consider themselves “lucky” have specific traits.
- They create and notice more opportunities for themselves. By talking to more people. Being open to new ideas. Trying new things. And more things along these lines.
- Lucky people trust their intuition a lot more. They make decisions faster. Don’t overthink everything.
- They simply expect lucky things to happen to them. Sounds crazy simple but things like these have an impact on your life. I tend to believe this as well.
- Lucky people turn their bad luck into something good. By imagining a worse scenario and instead being thankful when something bad happens.
By contrast people who consider themselves “unlucky” are the exact opposite.
