This is Steve Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

In episode 465, we learned how to make your own luck, and it turns out that science also wants to make luck.

Professor Richard Wiseman's book, The Luck Factor, lays out four essential principles, all supported

by science, in how to make more luck, and how fortunate that I just happened to stumble across

this book in the bookstore. Make the most out of chance. By definition, luck is not planned. When you

go to a casino and you play craps, it's lucky if the first role is seven.

But if you make sure that it's seven by exercising your psychokinetic powers to levitate and rotate the dice, that's not luck.

That's magic.

And you'll be escorted out of the casino by two guys named Bubba.

Luck is the opportunity that you aren't expecting.

If you want lots of chance opportunities, you have to plan to make those happen.

As we saw in episode 465, luck comes in the form of people.

So the more varied people you bring into your life, the more luck will come your way.

Wiseman recommends meeting a new person every week.

Go out somewhere that there are people.

Find someone you don't already know who looks friendly and strike up a conversation.

Anyone wearing a t-shirt that says,

Shy multi-billionaire in search of friends should be the first on your list to approach.

If you don't know how to strike up a conversation, just say,

excuse me, I was listening to this podcast that told me to meet a new person.

You look like someone who's fun to know. Would you me to meet a new person. You look like someone who's fun to know,

who would you object to making a new friend? Because remember, you can always blame it on me,

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