Summary: Make Your Own Luck - Peter Kash: Success Tactics You Won't Learn In Business School

This work offers a summary of the book "MAKE YOUR OWN LUCK: Success Tactics You Won't Learn In Business School" by Peter Kash.Lucky people are not lucky: they are better at reading the signs of opportunity.

The key to long-term success is to recognise coincidences and strands of information that might seem random, but taken together are significant.

Peter Kash suggests that a productive way to view "luck" creation in terms of four factors with are inextricably linked together: 1.

Your own definition of success 2. Basic human values, eg respect 3. An opportunity for personal development and, 4. A personal sense of fulfillment.Kash explains that all four are achievable for everyone.

He suggests practical ways you can look for clues in each area, and align them together.

For example, acknowledge that the price of success will be early failure: they only way your instinct will improve will be by taking opportunities.

If you are faced with someone saying "no", at least you are talking to someone who makes decisions.

At the same time, though, always do your research before jumping into anything, and consider very hard whether you can commit the time and resources.In short, Kash has provided the reader with the tools to become a more self-aware person, in business and in life, ready to take opportunities.