Ion smoke cigarettes but if I did I’d do it in the rain while listening to Coldplay in like Seattle or sumn. Might not even have an umbrella just rock a cotton jacket while walkin w/ my head down 😮💨 white folk ate w/ that vibe lowkey 😂💯
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.
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EVERY CROWN COSTS PAIN THAT THEY WONT KNOW EVERYONE WANT A MIRACLE BUT DODGE THE HELL THOUGH TURN THE PRESSURE TO PURPOSE LET THE LIGHT SHOW THE RISE ONLY COMES WHEN YOU LET GO
Le concept du luxe c’est d’acheter un truc qui a aucun rapport qualité prix mais t’es content parce que dessus y’a le nom d’un homme riche pédophile et/ou sioniste
the trick in life is to just not think so much. your unconscious brain is 1000x smarter & faster than your conscious one. you have to intuit your way to success, and shut the voice in your head up
I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonderful, not dwell on it for too long. Just figure out what’s next.
Steve Jobs