Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.
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I always leave room for serendipity and chance.
Serendipity always rewards the prepared.
I think it's kind of nice, in this day and age of instant gratification, that you have to wait for something.
What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
There's always going to be the circumstances you can't plan for. There's always the unexpected relevance and the serendipity.
Engineering serendipity is this idea that we can help people come across unexpected but helpful connections at a better than random rate. And in some ways it's based on trying to reassess this notion of serendipitous as lucky - to think of serendipitous as smart.
But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
I've always loved life, and I've never known what's ahead. I love not knowing what might be round the corner. I love serendipity.
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