Does telling yourself you live a charmed life work? Does feeling lucky bring on more of that? Katie doesn’t think it’s useful metric, and in this edition of Doing What Works she explains why.

Here are your show notes…

We got the idea for a show about luck from George Mack.

There’s a podcast about Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire.”

A What Color Is Your Parachute? workshop was a class on making a life transition.

The Law of Attraction was the basis for The Secret.

Is the Universe hostile or friendly? Albert Einstein thought that’s the most important question.

Jordan Ellenberg is the author of How Not to Be Wrong.

Thomas Jefferson is quoted as saying the harder he works, the luckier he gets.

Earl Nightingale is quoted as saying luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity.

Alex Lickerman talks about indestructible happiness in his book, The Undefeated Mind.