Luck is one of the most intriguing and contested ideas in human thought.
We invoke it daily — in sport, work, health, and chance encounters — yet it remains an elusive concept.
Philosophers use it to test moral responsibility; psychologists study it to understand perception and mindset; ordinary people experience it as the mysterious force that can
turn success or failure in an instant.
This Podcast and Free briefing report explores the nature of luck in depth, examining how it is defined, categorised, and experienced. Drawing from both philosophical and psychological traditions, it identifies distinct forms of luck — such as existential, constitutive, circumstantial, resultant, conditional, epistemic, and moral luck —before turning to the modern question of how individuals can influence or “create” their own luck through mindset and behaviour.