i believe in re-reading and re-watching your favourite books & movies at different stages of your life. the plot never changes, but your perspective does.
There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.
He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.
When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.
Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.
The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.
Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.
The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.
That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.
🚨 BREAKING: The Global Sumud Flotilla is being intercepted by the Israeli navy.
So close to Gaza, yet so far.
The criminal entity will not allow a single vessel to reach the starving. Even mercy is blockaded.
A state so terrified of compassion it blockades bread & medicine.
#Flotilla #GlobalSumudFilotilla
Jobs are stressful. So is unemployment. Not finding a partner is stressful. So is having one. Working in an office is stressful. So is working with your hands. Having 50 clients is stressful. So is having none. Life is full of trade-offs. Don’t romanticise options you don’t know.
Being a housewife IS work. An unpaid work, in fact. It doesn't have a business/office hour because you work 24/7 & it doesn't have a job scope because you end up doing everything. Kalau surirumah diberi gaji mengikut segala yang mereka lakukan... I think most men can't afford it.
No offense, but I still don’t understand the hype around Ayam Gepuk. What exactly makes it so special?
The sambal? The crispiness of the chicken? Or the thrill of eating it with rice, sambal & sides like tempe & fried cabbage.
It seems pretty basic.