What if everything we experience comes down to luck? Humans have struggled with anxiety about the pervasiveness of luck since the concept first arose in ancient societies, and attempts to address the problem have shaped the modern world. Yet the problem of luck has persisted because resolving it requires letting go of a tenacious group of deeply rooted illusions centered on the need to feel that people mostly get what they deserve.
In Luckpilled: Compassion, Hope, and Justice in a World Nobody Deserves, Aaron Rabinowitz combines cutting-edge work on the philosophy, psychology, politics, and pedagogy of luck to argue that we are better off embracing the pervasiveness of luck and abandoning harmful illusions that preserve an unjust status-quo. Using the luckpilling techniques offered in this book can help readers to cultivate compassion, empathy, gratitude and humility, as well as a stronger connection to activities they find meaningful.