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  • Woody Guthrie’s 1940s folk song “This Land is Your Land” was revived in the ‘60s - just in time to help young baby boomers seeking backseat means to torture their parents on family road trips. Trips that – at least in a child’s mind  - stretched from California to the New York Island.

  •  Want to be rich and successful? Then you’ve got to ask yourself one question, “Do you feel lucky?”

    Right now I'm channeling Clint Eastwood - who most recently stole my heart with his Super Bowl ad challenging America to get back in the game. But who can forget Clint growling the question while pointing a gun that may or may not be loaded at the "punk" in "Dirty Harry."

    The link between luck and success is so firmly established in our collective consciousness it has inspired research at universities from Stanford to Princeton. Even mathematicians have spent countless hours quantifying luck with formulas that look something like “λ(E)=Δ(E) [1-pr(E)].”