Sophia Buena ☻

process & perspective ヾ(๑╹◡╹)ﾉ" 🇵🇸

[𝐕𝐓 @volleytiger]

SHARING THIS HERE.

Let’s help Divine Adili’s family during this difficult time.

from @nigeriabasketballph on IG

[☔ @Whotfismick]

UNPOPULAR OPINION: Someone’s free time is NOT their availability

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

i hope the next global trend will be empathy and critical thinking.

[✧˖ @colditioner]

“when i choose to see the good side of things, i'm not being naive. it is strategic and necessary. it's how I've learned to survive through everything”

[Sophia Buena ☻ @sobebuena]

@Ekangggggs love you ate 🥹 thank you 💙💙💙

[☔ @Whotfismick]

Me sensing an opportunity to randomly sing a song mid conversation based off words you said

[volleybagan @volleybagan]

Exactly 10 years ago today. 💙🦅

[migs | ia @teneo_OBF]

Thank you for the One Big Fight, Brian Castro! 💙🦅

#UAAPSeason88

🖼️: @ustvball

[Sophia Buena ☻ @sobebuena]

my mom, dad, and i!!!! 🥹💙 obf foreva

[volleybagan @volleybagan]

Hindi man ngayon, pero alam ko na balang araw, magkikita-kita tayong muli. 💙🥹

[C @cyrusamanya]

“A moving man will surely meet his luck” must be the greatest quote from our generation.

[🐦 @maizenintwt]

REPRESENTTTTTTT

[` @lisaawrites]

How lucky we are to experience boring, ordinary, uneventful days. Somewhere in the world, that kind of safety is unimaginable.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

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.

[Curious Minds @CuriousMindsHub]

Repetition rewires the brain.
Repetition rewires the brain.
Repetition rewires the brain.
Repetition rewires the brain.
Repetition rewires the brain.
Repetition rewires the brain.
Repetition rewires the brain.

[Peter Twinklage @PeterTwinklage]

Moo Deng walked so Punch the Monkey could run so the Corgi who led seven kidnapped dogs across highways and fields could soar

[Miley Official @MileyCyrusBz]

HANNAH MONTANA SINGING THE CLIMB. I AM SOBBING 🥺

[Miley Official @MileyCyrusBz]

🚨 HANNAH MONTANA PERFORMS BEST OF BOTH WORLDS. INSANE.

[sara @hauntdjedi]

You just need to find someone to be brave for.