Recipes for Good Luck
- In Defense of Troublemakers: The Power of Dissent in Life & Business - $16.17
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing - $17.63
- Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress - $21.00
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups - $18.02
- Daily Rituals: How Artists Work - $16.96
I know one recipe for good luck and it contains shredded pork, tomatillo salsa, Cotija cheese, and a corn tortilla. Mmmm, Taco Tuesday is always a good luck day. Ellen Weinstein's compilation of Recipes for Good Luck, though, gets a little more specific, maybe even obsessive, than downing delicious Mexican food because it makes you feel like all is right right in the world while you're doing it. These Recipes for Good Luck are vignettes describing The Superstitions, Rituals, and Practices of Extraordinary People.
From NASA engineers to Audrey Hepburn, Benjamin Franklin to Beyonce, the book of Recipes for Good Luck discusses some of the quirkier things our leading creatives, politicians, scientists, and athletes do to sow some favorable fortune. Some examples:
- Murder mystery writer Agatha Christie ate apples in the bathtub to get her own creative juices flowing.
- Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke always stands on his head for a few minutes before a performance.
- Benjamin Franklin took "air baths," wherein he sat around naked in front of a window for 30 to 60 minutes before putting his noodle to work. Uh, the noodle up top, not down below.
- Charles Dickens carried a compass with him everywhere he went and would sleep only facing north.
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