
Recipes for Good Luck
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What did Maya Angelou do to keep the words flowing? How do NASA engineers ensure a successful launch? What was Audrey Hepburn's lucky number? How does Thom Yorke get ready for a concert? How did Björn Borg prepare for Wimbledon?
This charmingly illustrated book reveals the real-life creative processes, superstitions, curious practices, and performance routines of influential leaders from every walk of life-artists, writers, scientists, politicians, musicians, actors, and more-who forged their own path and left an indelible mark on the world. It is a celebration of all the many weird and wonderful ways we find the courage to boldly go forth. So, get out there and start making some good luck of your own!
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Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Agatha Christie
- Akira Kurosawa
- Alfred Hitchcock
- Allyson Felix
- Anna Wintour
- Anthony Bourdain
- Audrey Hepburn
- Augustus Caesar
- Barack Obama
- Benjamin Franklin
- Beyoncé
- Björn Borg
- Charles Dickens
- Coco Chanel
- Dan Brown
- Diane von Furstenberg
- Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Ellen Degeneres
- Flannery O'Connor
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Frida Kahlo
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Gertrude Stein
- Gustav Mahler
- Gustave Eiffel
- Haruki Murakami
- Heidi Klum
- I. M. Pei
- Isabel Allende
- James Joyce
- J. K. Rowling
- Joan Didion
- John Steinbeck
- John Wayne
- Laboratory of the University of Georgia
- Laird Hamilton
- Leonard Cohen
- Lucille Ball
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Lupita Nyong'o
- Marie Curie
- Mary Shelley
- Maya Angelou
- Michael Jordan
- Misty Copeland
- Mitoizumi
- Napoléon Bonaparte
- Nasa
- Niels Bohr
- Pablo Picasso
- Patricia Highsmith
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Robert Plant
- Salvador Dalí
- Serena Williams
- Sigmund Freud
- Taylor Swift
- Thom Yorke
- Tiger Woods
- Virginia Woolf
- Wade Boggs
- Winston Churchill
- Yoko Ono
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Chronicle Ebooks
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