Beyond Pipe Dreams and Platitudes (Insights on Love, Luck, and Narcissism from a Longtime Psychologist). Written by a retired clinical psychologist who received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Geraldine K. Piorkowski shares her insights on luck. In her book, one of her eight essays is titled “Luck or Chance Has been badly Underrated.” In it, she describes how we encounter luck or chance at every turn from our birth on…