My before 30 bucket list:
❏ Build a podcast that 100k people listen to
❏ Make someone’s life better
❏ See Lebron play in the flesh before he retires
❏ Launch a startup company or VC fund
❏ Buy a house
❏ Interview Gucci Mane
❏ Run a half marathon
❏ Travel to 20 countries
My friend and I noticed a while back how often we would miss out on this because we all walk around in public with headphones in these days.
Being intentional about not wearing AirPods in public has so significantly levelled up the surface area for serendipity with strangers.
People talk about looksmaxxing but you should be serendipitymaxxing:
Get outside more often, try that new thing, say hi to the person next to you on the plane, ask a stranger if you can sit next to them for coffee, go eat alone at that restaurant you want to try, walk in a new place every day for a month, wear the outfit you’ve been afraid is too bold - and compliment someone else on theirs, explore a new city, explore your own city with new eyes, compliment a stranger with no expectations in return, ask someone older than you to tell you one of their favorite life stories, reach out to someone you haven’t talked to in a while just to say you’re thinking of them, go to a new grocery store and start a conversation with someone in every aisle.
The quality of your life is directly linked to how many unplanned positive encounters you have.