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Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll share some tips on how to improve your luck from the book The Luck Factor by Richard Wiseman. About a year ago, I read an article that referenced this book, the Luck Factor, and have thought about it pretty regularly since then. I just got around to reading the actual book and I thought I’d share my thoughts and takeaways with you. This book is about luck. Most people consider luck to be something that is entirely out of our control. Some people have good things that happen to them, some have bad. However, in his studies on luck, Wiseman find that people who consider themselves lucky have a lot of things in common. Note that this is people who consider themselves to be lucky -- which is important to differentiate from actual luck. He makes no attempt to determine whether people are objectively lucky or not. He simply asked them to rate themselves on a scale with very luck...