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Martin Signorin

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in Erith, Kent, The United Kingdom

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Nonfiction, Psychology, Philosophy

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Daniel Kahneman, Robert M. Sapolsky

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Martin Signorin is drawn to questions that are often left unasked. In The Luck Illusion, he examines a word we use almost without thinking. When somebody succeeds or fails, how much does calling it luck really explain?

Drawing on personal experience, research and narrative, Martin examines the conditions behind an outcome: the opportunities a person had, the choices available to them, the help they received and the events they could not control.

His writing is straightforward and reflective, marked by sympathy for people trying to make sense of their lives. The Luck Illusion invites readers to look more closely at success and failure without pretending that every cause is known.

His next book, The Shadow Biography, is due out in January 2027. ...more

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The Luck Illusion: Why Success Isn’t Random — and What Actually Shapes Your Life

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Writing Is Sedentary. What Can You Do?

I spend much of my life sitting at a laptop. That ishardly surprising for a writer, but I am probably more conscious of thephysical consequences than I once was. Cancer left me disabled, surgery cost meribs, and there are now fairly definite limits to what my body will tolerate.

Accepting those limits has been difficult. Earlier in mylife I was intensely competitive in sport. Exercise meant pushing

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