This morning I’m listening to the latest edition of the Focused podcast hosted by Mike Schmitz and David Sparks. They’re interviewing the author of the new book “Tiny Experiments” by Anne-Laure Le Cunff. I’ve been a subscriber to her Ness Labs newsletter and am enjoying listening to their conversation.
One of the things she talks about is how she’s been thinking about what’s the inverse of living life with tiny experiments. She settled on, among other things, cynicism. Wow, that resonates with me!
As I got older, I came to appreciate the real value that serendipity plays in my life. That’s what leads to new experiences, tiny experiments, new understandings, etc. The opposite often is cynicism. Cynics resist change. They critique others – especially when they’re pursuing new things that the cynic finds meaningless.
I’ve come to really listen to what happens with serendipity. How it unlocks new insights, new learnings, often leading to new tiny experiments which open even more new vistas. For me, that’s what living is all about.