As Luck Would Have It Incredible Stories from Lottery Wins to Lightning Strikes

Here are dozens of people with tremendously compelling stories of triumph (or misfortune), seemingly against all odds & logic. When they were asked what they had in common, their answer was: good luck, or not enough of it. Here is a fascinating survey of this phenomenon, presented through first-person stories: the winner of a $180 million lottery; 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. Weaves the subjects' own beliefs about their experiences with research on chance, probability, & luck psychol. Includes res. on how to prepare for luck, how to deal with it when it arrives, & how to make the choices that will help us benefit from luck.Piven, Joshua is the author of 'As Luck Would Have It Incredible Stories from Lottery Wins to Lightning Strikes', published 2003 under ISBN 9780756783730 and ISBN 0756783739.