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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2716" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-open-up-to-serendipity-and-create-your-own-luck" target="_blank"><strong>How to be lucky - Psyche</strong></a><strong></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Most of us think that luck just happens (or doesn’t) but everyone can learn to look for the unexpected and find serendipity</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p>Human beings find comfort in certainty. We form governments, make calendars, and create organizations; and we structure our activities, strategies and plans around these constructs. These routines give us the satisfaction of knowing that, by having a plan, there’s a means of it coming to fruition.</p><p></p><p>But there’s another force, constantly at play in life, that often makes the greatest difference to our futures: the ‘unexpected’ or the ‘unforeseen’. If you think about it, you already look out for the unexpected every day, but perhaps only as a defense mechanism. For example, whenever you use a pedestrian crossing on a busy road, you look out for the unexpected driver who might race through the red light. That ‘alertness’ to, or awareness of, the unexpected is at the center of understanding the science of (smart) luck and exploiting it to your benefit.</p><p></p><p>In my research into what makes individuals and organizations fit for the future, one insight has come up again and again: many of the world’s leading minds have developed a capacity, often unconscious, to turn the unexpected into positive outcomes. Developing this ‘serendipity mindset’, as I <a href="https://theserendipitymindset.com/" target="_blank">call</a> it, is both a philosophy of life and a capability that you can shape and nurture in yourself. (Note, while this approach has been <a href="https://ssir.org/books/excerpts/entry/cultivating_serendipity" target="_blank">successful</a> across many settings, it does need to go hand in hand with tackling the structural inequality related to factors such as race, gender and income.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2716, member: 1"] [URL='https://psyche.co/guides/how-to-open-up-to-serendipity-and-create-your-own-luck'][B]How to be lucky - Psyche[/B][/URL][B] Most of us think that luck just happens (or doesn’t) but everyone can learn to look for the unexpected and find serendipity [/B] Human beings find comfort in certainty. We form governments, make calendars, and create organizations; and we structure our activities, strategies and plans around these constructs. These routines give us the satisfaction of knowing that, by having a plan, there’s a means of it coming to fruition. But there’s another force, constantly at play in life, that often makes the greatest difference to our futures: the ‘unexpected’ or the ‘unforeseen’. If you think about it, you already look out for the unexpected every day, but perhaps only as a defense mechanism. For example, whenever you use a pedestrian crossing on a busy road, you look out for the unexpected driver who might race through the red light. That ‘alertness’ to, or awareness of, the unexpected is at the center of understanding the science of (smart) luck and exploiting it to your benefit. In my research into what makes individuals and organizations fit for the future, one insight has come up again and again: many of the world’s leading minds have developed a capacity, often unconscious, to turn the unexpected into positive outcomes. Developing this ‘serendipity mindset’, as I [URL='https://theserendipitymindset.com/']call[/URL] it, is both a philosophy of life and a capability that you can shape and nurture in yourself. (Note, while this approach has been [URL='https://ssir.org/books/excerpts/entry/cultivating_serendipity']successful[/URL] across many settings, it does need to go hand in hand with tackling the structural inequality related to factors such as race, gender and income.) [/QUOTE]
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