Whether you're placing bets on a hot player in your rotisserie baseball league or a hot fund in your investment portfolio, recognize that good luck is unlikely to persist.
Writing this book and spending time with these characters solidified what I always knew to be true. If we can dream it, we can make it our reality, but we have to set that plan in motion by taking the first step.
Chance definitely plays a significant role in our successes; unexpected circumstances can rock anyone's boat. However, with a good sense of self, "luck" can turn around.
It's not every day that a journalist becomes part of a work of art. In a stroke of autobiographical fervor a few years ago Christian Boltanski had so...
If you prepare yourself to make the most of chance encounters, good things are waiting to happen. While you can't control the random events of life, you can indeed create your own luck.
The amazing things that have happened to me recently include kismet, random romance, encountering the famous and meeting my future wife in an unheated...
I had the chance recently to interview two professors in the field of statistics (from Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology),...