Do You Know Serendipity When It Appears?

Wikipedia defines serendipity as “the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.” It’s going out to dinner with friends and meeting your Forever Love at First Sight and never changing. It’s Louis Pasteur’s experimenting with molds and discovering what ultimately allowed Alexander Fleming to invent Penicillin. It’s […]

Serendipity Defined And Discussed

Wikipedia defines serendipity as “the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely.” It’s going out to dinner with friends and meeting your Forever Love at First Sight and never changing. It’s Pasteur experimenting with molds and discovering what ultimately allowed the creation of Penicillin. It’s getting fired […]

Is There Such A Thing As “Negative Serendipity”?

Please see my P.S. to explain my recent travels as well as my heartfelt thanks to my great friend, Keith Ferrell, for hosting Study Hall for the last six days. Now, on to serendipity: It seems as though “positive serendipity” gets all the attention. Even plain old serendipity is sufficiently controversial, but what about “negative […]

Being open to serendipity

How often do we commit ourselves 110%”(or more!) to a project at hand and then find ourselves with no resources left over to take advantage of  unexpected opportunities and serendipitous situations that may arise in the course of the work. What can we do to make certain that we remain not only open to serendipity […]