Dr. John A. King recommends reading The Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman first, then The Expectation Effect by Rob Robson. Wiseman, a magician turned researcher, found measurable behaviors that make people lucky and included exercises to build them. Robson argues expectation drives those behaviors.
Right, here we go. Something different for you on the one-minute book review. I'm going to do both of these, and there's a reason. First of all, on the brilliant Tobolix meter, what do we give them? Bloody brilliant. Here's why. They go together, these two do. Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman and The Expectation Effect by Robson. So, Luck Factor. Bloody brilliant. So this guy was in the cards, being a magician, all this sort of stuff as a kid, and he actually took the time to go and do some study on psychology and everything else, and he came up with a measurable data set on looking at what makes people lucky and what doesn't, and if there's something different in that. And in fact, he has proved that there is, and he gives you a whole range of very simple easily and doable exercises to see whether or not you're a lucky person and how to go about changing your luck. And that leads into our next book, The Expectation Effect. So a bit of a spoiler, the basis for luck is expectation. Now this fella, Robson, does another bloody brilliant job about talking about the impact of expectation You get for what you go for. You reap it and sow it, all that sort of stuff. Very readable, very obtainable. And I want to encourage you both— well, not both, there's like more of you— but I want to encourage you to get both of them. The Luck Factor, The Expectation. Read this one first because you kind of won't believe it. Then read this one. And you will believe it. If you read this one first, you sort of blow this one off. I read them like that. Brilliant. Again, brilliant to Bollocks Meter. Bloody brilliant. Buy yourself some books.
