The Paradox of Purposeful Serendipity: Lessons from an Accidental Golfer 🏌️‍♀️

Structure is good. Schedule is useful. Routines have their place.

In a world taught to paint between the lines, I wonder:

In my experience, deeper understanding prevails, more profound connections form and more innovative ideas germinate in the liminal spaces - not within the lines, but at the edges of them. 

Outside of the usual norms, at the boundaries of comfort zones, on the intersect or in the overlap of disparate fields, within moments of vulnerability when we, and others, are outside of our known knows, where natural forcing functions collapse imposed status and reveal a deeper authentic self.

I digress…

This was the thought I was musing on as I walked into a golf club accepting an unexpected invitation to talk business over lunch and puts.

(A curious location for a die hard endurance athlete who’s never so much as touched a club before…!)

As it happened, this ‘meet and greet’ turned into quite the gold opportunity….

At this point I shall pause.

For those of you in the TLDR category here is the punch line:

Get yourself in more unconventional, out of the norm, places to meet out of your norm people, and achieve out of the norm results.

For those in read for ‘Longer but Very Worth a Read’:

I am going to breakdown WHY and WHAT YOU NEED TO DO ABOUT IT in 3 paragraphs.

Got 5 and a notepad? Read on here👇👇👇👇

Table of Contents

• Why & What 1: The Parallax View of Expertise

• Why & What 2: Curious > Genius

• Why & What 3. Curated Serendipity

• So Here's to Purposeful Serendipity