The commandment of the Second Technique is: Go where events flow fastest. Surround yourself with a churning mass of people and things happening.

The Thirteenth Technique: Destiny Pairing

It will be useful to take a brief look at this reluctance. You must clear it out of your way before you can begin the process of changing your luck.

Optimism means expecting the best, but good luck involves knowing how you will handle the worst.

The consistently lucky are the run cutters.

The universe has no interest in what you deserve.

turns out that lucky men and women, on the whole are not straight-line strugglers. They not only permit themselves to be distracted, they invite distraction. Their lives are not straight lines but zigzags.

How can you tell whether a historical outcome was caused by luck or by something more reliable, such as a person’s character? One good way is to ask whether there are clearly visible links of cause and effect.

The Eleventh Technique: Accepting an Unfair Universe