Serendipity -- a life-giving look at the moment, at what's happening, at what life gives you...
My graduate thesis paper in my second round of graduate school worked on a theme that resembles this author's ideas...over the subsequent decades, I've thrived from that notion of serendipity, but I've found few 'kindred spirits' who see the importance of this phenomenon. For many folk in places I've worked, they're in a very different place--very focused on the task at hand, in a way that has left them uncomfortable or sometimes angry when I've found serendipitous moments/ideas/notions that would contribute to the effort at work.
Perhaps the useful thing to say is that how can Americans today build a stronger culture of serendipity? It does not require becoming a Zen Buddhist, just an attention to the moment, and the ideas that one has, particularly those which are surprising, weird, unexpected...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/opinion/how-to-cultivate-the-art-of-serendipity.html
Perhaps the useful thing to say is that how can Americans today build a stronger culture of serendipity? It does not require becoming a Zen Buddhist, just an attention to the moment, and the ideas that one has, particularly those which are surprising, weird, unexpected...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/03/opinion/how-to-cultivate-the-art-of-serendipity.html