[Change Your Life] Serendipity - Nightingale

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There are few things more interesting than words. Here’s one you can add to your vocabulary and to your way of life, if you want to. The word is SERENDIPITY. The meaning of serendipity, according to the Oxford Dictionary, is “the faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident.” And it means, also, the good things that almost always happen to a person following a bold course of action; serendipitous things.
The word was coined by the British author, Horace Walpole, who based it on the title of an old fairy tale, “The Three Princes of Serendip.” The princes in the story were always making discoveries of things they were not in quest of.
Let’s say you’re trying to invent something. Frequently, you will stumble onto something entirely different, and wonderful, that you had no idea of discovering. That’s what serendipity means. Now the point I want to make is that you wouldn’t have made the serendipitous discovery, if you hadn’t been looking for something else....
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