Purpose has seasons. What drove you through your 20s will exhaust you in your 40s. Growth means letting your previous selves die without calling it failure.
Luck doesn’t just happen, it’s created. You can do things to increase the odds of serendipity.
Meeting more people makes you lucky.
Learning more skills makes you lucky.
Being willing to fail makes you lucky.
Offering to help others more often makes you lucky.
Today in @ScienceMagazine my colleagues and I address the mystery of why opioid overdoses in the US and Canada suddenly began dropping dramatically. We assemble traditional and novel evidence to point to an illicit drug supply disruption, probably in China. 1/8
The takeaway: follow rules that make
you who you want to be. Don’t trust your thinking (entirely) when it comes to addiction recovery or even just behavioral modification for non addictive things. Your unconscious mind is not always your friend.