Ever gone on a serendipity walk?
First is what do serendipity walk mean and how would it affect the things and work we will be doing in the future in which it can help us to create and make a project or plane that would be successful and appropriate for us who would put up something according to the things we love and like? Serendipity is a propensity for making fortunate discoveries while looking for something unrelated.
“One aspect of Walpole's original definition of serendipity that is often missed in modern discussions of the word is the "sagacity" of being able to link together apparently innocuous facts to come to a valuable conclusion. Thus, while some scientists and inventors are reluctant about reporting accidental discoveries, others openly admit its role; in fact serendipity is a major component of scientific discoveries and inventions. According to M.K. Stoskopf "it should be recognized that serendipitous discoveries are of significant value in the advancement of science and often present the foundation for important intellectual leaps of understanding".
Most authors, who have studied scientific serendipity both in a historical, as well as in an epistemological point of view, agree that a prepared and open mind is required on the part of the scientist or inventor to detect the importance of information revealed accidentally. This is the reason why most of the related accidental discoveries occur in the field of specialization of the scientist. About this, Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD properties by unintentionally ingesting it at his lab, wrote.
It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.
The French scientist Louis Pasteur also famously said: "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." This is often rendered as "Chance favors the prepared mind." William Shakespeare expressed the same sentiment 250 years earlier in act 4 of his play Henry V: "All things are ready if our minds be so."
M. E. Graebner describes serendipitous value in the context of the acquisition of a business as "windfalls that were not anticipated by the buyer prior to the deal": i.e., unexpected advantages or benefits incurred due to positive synergy effects of the merger. Ikujiro Nonaka (1991,p. 94 November-December issue of HBR) points out that the serendipitous quality of innovation is highly recognized by managers and links the success of Japanese enterprises to their ability to create knowledge not by processing information but rather by "tapping the tacit and often highly subjective insights, intuitions, and hunches of individual employees and making those insights available for testing and use by the company as a whole".
Serendipity is a key concept in Competitive Intelligence because it is one of the tools for avoiding Blind Spots; Stories of accidental discovery in exploration abound, of course, because the aim of exploration is to find new things and places. The principle of serendipity applies here, however, when the explorer had one aim in mind and found another unexpectedly. In addition, discoveries have been made by people simply attempting to reach a known destination but who departed from the customary or intended route for a variety of reasons. Some classical cases were discoveries of the Americas by explorers with other aims.”
file:///E:/Encyclopedia%20on%20Serendipity.htm
In this exercise all of us was amazed on how serendipity walks can be applied into things we are working on and be doing in the future, perhaps plans or future vision may come up just like a blink of an eye you may have something in mind that had just came up in no where. I have experienced several thoughts of things that just came up while walking and moaning around that had made my thinking go all over again on how would a place look like after a renovation on machines and technology in all the things I am seeing that technopreneur may be applied when I had the Technopreneur 1.
I saw a movie on TED.com that had amazed me on how he had imagine things that are beyond imaginatively by people who would not be able to understand what he was thinking by that time he made history out of just a simple thought of “what if” he made great things out of simple things that could be easily seen in all places here on earth it was a “mouse” in which he had discovered a gadget in which I cannot seem to find a word to portray the whole machine he had invented over a single mind of his. Who would imagine that one individual could capture a picture or scene just by using his own hands, play games on a bond paper, or make a Google search on the wall. How much more to say he can call just by using his own hands, Isn’t it incredible?
So as just the day goes by, it was the month of November we haven’t pass any business proposal yet when a certain thought came up while I was walking, my experience in the cemetery in our City was “All Saints Day” I woke up early in the morning and thought what would I be doing in this day? Still we haven’t had a good idea that would really be appreciated by our facilitator, and because it was “All saints Day” we visited our love ones who had passed away in the afternoon. While watching the people that are so busy on, trying to find where are their love ones tombstone is, or how they would be able to specify the exact location over thousands of tombstones that are in the cemetery for they had forgotten it over the years of not visiting their love ones. I was just watching them moving around going there, then back and fort to the familiar place where they had last visited it. All was mixed up because of the tents that are closing and blocking the way and covering the tombstones that are supposedly not to be occupied by other people for them to be easily seen and found by their love ones, their was once a family asked if there is a tombstone in the said tent just over it lowering down their flowers to see if that was the exact place, when I came up with an idea just by watching around all the people having their love ones graveyard being cleaned and decorated.
What if this whole place would be fully operated by a Database? All the bodies that would be buried would have a semi Bio-data of their own just important matters that would be useful on their status of life before and after they had died. It may be much more easier and would fixed all the things in the cemetery including the alphabetical structure of all the family names that would simplify all the things they would be needing in the future all will be stored on a Database and kept for important purposes and usage on the future. And a machine that would operate on updating all the people who had been buried in the cemetery for the thought that all things wouldn’t be mixed up. Nor do they would be lost again on finding their love ones burial place. And would maintain also for the cleaning and maintenance of the place for it to be called a holy place for the people we loved who had passed away. More on over it would appraise the things like security and time management for the people who would reserve a place in which they would like their love ones to be accompanied in a single place for visiting and many purposes.
In the process of serendipity I also give myself a space and time to see things in a different globe – there can be a heightening of all the senses because I could wander without a plan nor have things without making anything just by doing serendipity walk all I have to do is lower up my thinking skills and dreaming vision towards the other side of creativity… I could use radars that tunes in new opportunities just like in Technopreneur 1 on having a business proposal that would go beyond limits of expectations of others that technology could have.
“Daydreaming is a great example of serendipitying in your conscious and unconscious – misty wanderings that have all sorts of images and sounds – sometime becoming a crystal idea – sometimes one of those moments.”
Creativity demands serendipitying. I developed a model of creativity years ago after working with artists and other creative people. I termed the phrase ‘foraging’ to describe the serendipity experience of wandering that happens at the beginning and thru a creative process. It’s a kind of walk (sometime physical) thru ideas and images and fragments of sound – everything that could somehow spark a creative idea or theme for an exhibition or sound for a symphony is foraged. A kind of musing on connections and disconnections of your thoughts has correlations on things you may see, think and dream of.
And you can bring the serendipity experience to places you think you already know. Wander your street, your city, your workplace as if you’ve never been there before… wander into conversations with people you know and let go of an agenda or a perception or an expectation. Decide to wander the known with a specific intensity – try and only hear women’s voices or see shades of blue or the scent of certain food. See where that leads you.
Now, because you are not only an attractive but also an intelligent and perceptive reader, you have lept ahead of me in your serendipitying – and are now exploring how to serendipity in other ways:-
Serendipity wandering online – it’s not called the web for nothing. I love what happens when I allow myself to serendipity the web – new ideas, new people, and old ideas in new ways …connections.
Serendipity senses- how about a serendipity wandering through smells, tastes and sounds – yum. Improve jazz is sound serendipity.
Serendipity in a library – the wonderful wanderings and unexpected treasures of serendipity in a library give me immense pleasure. Same thing happens when I wander a wine shop or market.
Serendipity body wander – see and sense yourself and (if you have one) your partner in serendipity wanders – a new journey with no destination or deadline.
Serendipity connections & conversations – my favorite thing in the whole world is the wonderful serendipities of conversations with people – you just never know where you’ll end up… what will scare you … provoke you… bring tears of laughter. I’m always interested in the potential serendipity of connections with other people.
Serendipity spirit wander – what if you went for a wander into other spirituality’s and ways of thought without any preconceptions? I was once asked to give 3 workshops for women on spirituality in mining towns in Oz. At that time I was flabbergasted to be asked as I didn’t see myself as a ‘spiritual’ person. As part of my own learning I went on serendipity and asked women to introduce me to other women who had been on spiritual journeys so I could meet them and interview them – talk about wandering into the unexpected. I met a feminist catholic nun; a witch; a Buddhist nun; women were on a whole range of spiritual journeys. It was more than eye opening – and my spiritual serendipitying continues today.
Serendipity Ballinamore – to some people, my move 2 months ago to this wee town appears to have little rhymes or reason. For me, it’s a major serendipity wander and I’m enjoying the walk.
An interesting paradox is that even within a plan we can serendipity – listen to the ‘tug’; be open to the unexpected; wander our imagination … and still stay focused on our goal or dream … or maybe let go of that dream for a new one as a result of a serendipity walk.
file:///E:/Serendipity%20Walking%20%E2%80%93%20No%20Deadline,%20No%20Destination%20%C2%AB%20Liz%20Biz%20%E2%80%93%20a%20rendezvous%20of%20musings.htm
First is what do serendipity walk mean and how would it affect the things and work we will be doing in the future in which it can help us to create and make a project or plane that would be successful and appropriate for us who would put up something according to the things we love and like? Serendipity is a propensity for making fortunate discoveries while looking for something unrelated.
“One aspect of Walpole's original definition of serendipity that is often missed in modern discussions of the word is the "sagacity" of being able to link together apparently innocuous facts to come to a valuable conclusion. Thus, while some scientists and inventors are reluctant about reporting accidental discoveries, others openly admit its role; in fact serendipity is a major component of scientific discoveries and inventions. According to M.K. Stoskopf "it should be recognized that serendipitous discoveries are of significant value in the advancement of science and often present the foundation for important intellectual leaps of understanding".
Most authors, who have studied scientific serendipity both in a historical, as well as in an epistemological point of view, agree that a prepared and open mind is required on the part of the scientist or inventor to detect the importance of information revealed accidentally. This is the reason why most of the related accidental discoveries occur in the field of specialization of the scientist. About this, Albert Hofmann, the Swiss chemist who discovered LSD properties by unintentionally ingesting it at his lab, wrote.
It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these experiments took place in the framework of systematic pharmaceutical, chemical research. It could better be described as serendipity.
The French scientist Louis Pasteur also famously said: "In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind." This is often rendered as "Chance favors the prepared mind." William Shakespeare expressed the same sentiment 250 years earlier in act 4 of his play Henry V: "All things are ready if our minds be so."
M. E. Graebner describes serendipitous value in the context of the acquisition of a business as "windfalls that were not anticipated by the buyer prior to the deal": i.e., unexpected advantages or benefits incurred due to positive synergy effects of the merger. Ikujiro Nonaka (1991,p. 94 November-December issue of HBR) points out that the serendipitous quality of innovation is highly recognized by managers and links the success of Japanese enterprises to their ability to create knowledge not by processing information but rather by "tapping the tacit and often highly subjective insights, intuitions, and hunches of individual employees and making those insights available for testing and use by the company as a whole".
Serendipity is a key concept in Competitive Intelligence because it is one of the tools for avoiding Blind Spots; Stories of accidental discovery in exploration abound, of course, because the aim of exploration is to find new things and places. The principle of serendipity applies here, however, when the explorer had one aim in mind and found another unexpectedly. In addition, discoveries have been made by people simply attempting to reach a known destination but who departed from the customary or intended route for a variety of reasons. Some classical cases were discoveries of the Americas by explorers with other aims.”
file:///E:/Encyclopedia%20on%20Serendipity.htm
In this exercise all of us was amazed on how serendipity walks can be applied into things we are working on and be doing in the future, perhaps plans or future vision may come up just like a blink of an eye you may have something in mind that had just came up in no where. I have experienced several thoughts of things that just came up while walking and moaning around that had made my thinking go all over again on how would a place look like after a renovation on machines and technology in all the things I am seeing that technopreneur may be applied when I had the Technopreneur 1.
I saw a movie on TED.com that had amazed me on how he had imagine things that are beyond imaginatively by people who would not be able to understand what he was thinking by that time he made history out of just a simple thought of “what if” he made great things out of simple things that could be easily seen in all places here on earth it was a “mouse” in which he had discovered a gadget in which I cannot seem to find a word to portray the whole machine he had invented over a single mind of his. Who would imagine that one individual could capture a picture or scene just by using his own hands, play games on a bond paper, or make a Google search on the wall. How much more to say he can call just by using his own hands, Isn’t it incredible?
So as just the day goes by, it was the month of November we haven’t pass any business proposal yet when a certain thought came up while I was walking, my experience in the cemetery in our City was “All Saints Day” I woke up early in the morning and thought what would I be doing in this day? Still we haven’t had a good idea that would really be appreciated by our facilitator, and because it was “All saints Day” we visited our love ones who had passed away in the afternoon. While watching the people that are so busy on, trying to find where are their love ones tombstone is, or how they would be able to specify the exact location over thousands of tombstones that are in the cemetery for they had forgotten it over the years of not visiting their love ones. I was just watching them moving around going there, then back and fort to the familiar place where they had last visited it. All was mixed up because of the tents that are closing and blocking the way and covering the tombstones that are supposedly not to be occupied by other people for them to be easily seen and found by their love ones, their was once a family asked if there is a tombstone in the said tent just over it lowering down their flowers to see if that was the exact place, when I came up with an idea just by watching around all the people having their love ones graveyard being cleaned and decorated.
What if this whole place would be fully operated by a Database? All the bodies that would be buried would have a semi Bio-data of their own just important matters that would be useful on their status of life before and after they had died. It may be much more easier and would fixed all the things in the cemetery including the alphabetical structure of all the family names that would simplify all the things they would be needing in the future all will be stored on a Database and kept for important purposes and usage on the future. And a machine that would operate on updating all the people who had been buried in the cemetery for the thought that all things wouldn’t be mixed up. Nor do they would be lost again on finding their love ones burial place. And would maintain also for the cleaning and maintenance of the place for it to be called a holy place for the people we loved who had passed away. More on over it would appraise the things like security and time management for the people who would reserve a place in which they would like their love ones to be accompanied in a single place for visiting and many purposes.
In the process of serendipity I also give myself a space and time to see things in a different globe – there can be a heightening of all the senses because I could wander without a plan nor have things without making anything just by doing serendipity walk all I have to do is lower up my thinking skills and dreaming vision towards the other side of creativity… I could use radars that tunes in new opportunities just like in Technopreneur 1 on having a business proposal that would go beyond limits of expectations of others that technology could have.
“Daydreaming is a great example of serendipitying in your conscious and unconscious – misty wanderings that have all sorts of images and sounds – sometime becoming a crystal idea – sometimes one of those moments.”
Creativity demands serendipitying. I developed a model of creativity years ago after working with artists and other creative people. I termed the phrase ‘foraging’ to describe the serendipity experience of wandering that happens at the beginning and thru a creative process. It’s a kind of walk (sometime physical) thru ideas and images and fragments of sound – everything that could somehow spark a creative idea or theme for an exhibition or sound for a symphony is foraged. A kind of musing on connections and disconnections of your thoughts has correlations on things you may see, think and dream of.
And you can bring the serendipity experience to places you think you already know. Wander your street, your city, your workplace as if you’ve never been there before… wander into conversations with people you know and let go of an agenda or a perception or an expectation. Decide to wander the known with a specific intensity – try and only hear women’s voices or see shades of blue or the scent of certain food. See where that leads you.
Now, because you are not only an attractive but also an intelligent and perceptive reader, you have lept ahead of me in your serendipitying – and are now exploring how to serendipity in other ways:-
Serendipity wandering online – it’s not called the web for nothing. I love what happens when I allow myself to serendipity the web – new ideas, new people, and old ideas in new ways …connections. Serendipity senses- how about a serendipity wandering through smells, tastes and sounds – yum. Improve jazz is sound serendipity. Serendipity in a library – the wonderful wanderings and unexpected treasures of serendipity in a library give me immense pleasure. Same thing happens when I wander a wine shop or market. Serendipity body wander – see and sense yourself and (if you have one) your partner in serendipity wanders – a new journey with no destination or deadline. Serendipity connections & conversations – my favorite thing in the whole world is the wonderful serendipities of conversations with people – you just never know where you’ll end up… what will scare you … provoke you… bring tears of laughter. I’m always interested in the potential serendipity of connections with other people. Serendipity spirit wander – what if you went for a wander into other spirituality’s and ways of thought without any preconceptions? I was once asked to give 3 workshops for women on spirituality in mining towns in Oz. At that time I was flabbergasted to be asked as I didn’t see myself as a ‘spiritual’ person. As part of my own learning I went on serendipity and asked women to introduce me to other women who had been on spiritual journeys so I could meet them and interview them – talk about wandering into the unexpected. I met a feminist catholic nun; a witch; a Buddhist nun; women were on a whole range of spiritual journeys. It was more than eye opening – and my spiritual serendipitying continues today. Serendipity Ballinamore – to some people, my move 2 months ago to this wee town appears to have little rhymes or reason. For me, it’s a major serendipity wander and I’m enjoying the walk.An interesting paradox is that even within a plan we can serendipity – listen to the ‘tug’; be open to the unexpected; wander our imagination … and still stay focused on our goal or dream … or maybe let go of that dream for a new one as a result of a serendipity walk.
file:///E:/Serendipity%20Walking%20%E2%80%93%20No%20Deadline,%20No%20Destination%20%C2%AB%20Liz%20Biz%20%E2%80%93%20a%20rendezvous%20of%20musings.htm
THE END (DAY Dreaming may sometimes be good if put into actions $_$)
