Your Lucky Chance: The Philosophy of Luck
Philosophical Questions
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Narrated by:
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Bob Buchanan Jr.
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By:
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Boris Kriger
About this listen
What if success, love, discovery — even survival — owe less to control than to coincidence? What if fortune, rather than being the enemy of reason, is its secret partner?
In Your Lucky Chance, Boris Kriger dismantles the myth of absolute merit and invites listeners into the hidden architecture of luck — where physics, biology, and human psychology intersect with irony and wonder. From Heisenberg’s uncertainty to Darwin’s accidents, from the gambler’s fallacy to the serendipity of invention, this book follows the long conversation between chaos and consciousness that defines both the universe and us.
Written with the clarity of a scientist and the wit of a philosopher, Kriger explores how randomness shapes every level of existence — from quantum particles to human ambition — and how understanding this can transform our attitude toward failure, risk, and success.
Your Lucky Chance reveals that to live wisely is not to master fate, but to cooperate with it. It teaches the art of becoming “available to probability” — of turning chance into ally, misfortune into momentum, and uncertainty into meaning.
In a world obsessed with prediction and control, this book offers a quieter kind of hope: that beauty, too, is statistical; that grace is often accidental; and that the universe, against all odds, still enjoys surprising us.