pstrongFor readers of Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Daniel Levitin with a twist of Bill Bryson--a lighthearted, entertaining and fateful exploration of luck in everyday lifestrongppFor centuries, people around the world have prayed for good luck and warded against bad. Every language features a good luck greeting. Sailors have long looked for an albatross on the horizon as a symbol of good fortune. Jade, clovers, rabbits' feet, wishbones these items have lined the pockets of those seeking good fortune. For some, it's bad luck to walk under a ladder, to enter and leave a home through different doors or to say Macbeth in a theatre. But is there such a thing as luck, or does luck often just explain common sense Don't walk under a ladder because, well, that's just dangerous. You won the lottery not because of any supernatural force but because a random number generator selected the same numbers that you picked out at the corner store. You run into a neighbour from your street on the other side