[gesman]

This touches on the whole universe of knowledge of how to manifest desires.

Luck is a final jump into desired physical manifestation of desire.

What author is touching upon heavily - is physical part - doing (something).

Another integral part of manifesting is removing conscious and subconscious blocks (beliefs) and practices of being in the state of already manifested desire.

[passion__desire]

Law of attraction is bs.

[UniverseHacker]

It seems like BS on the surface because it’s explained as a supernatural thing that gets results without effort. That’s not at all what it really is, really it’s a mental hack to align your unconscious with your conscious goals so you can stop self sabotaging, and actually take the real world actions that bring about the outcome you want. It’s simple, real, and works.

The magic part is a way of getting modern people that aren’t even aware they have an unconscious to directly work with it, by feeling they are working with some external magic.

[swyx]

(author here)

one of my favorite classes at Wharton was Richard Shell's the Literature of Success (https://apps.wharton.upenn.edu/syllabi/2016A/LGST227001/) where we, no joke, studied The Secret as a way to understand the "Think and Grow Rich"/manifestation philosophy of success

my favorite joke of his about the topic is "when two sports teams compete against one another, if both manifest their desire really hard, only one can win"

[gesman]

Or both win :)

Welcome to the world of parallel realities which is beyond the scope of this thread.