February 3, 2015 • Volume 6, Issue 3 • ISSN: 2154-3240

In This Issue

♦	Feature Article: Serendipity
♦	Ask Amanda: How can I control a nudge?
♦	Practical Tips: Reorient Your Experience

Serendipity

One outcome of our highly scheduled, constantly connected world is that we’re not as open to serendipity, a powerful tool in creating innovative insights. Coined by Horace Walpole, serendipity is used to describe those who “were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of.” In other words, looking for one thing and finding another.

Jim Gritton, author of Of Serendipity, Free Association and Aimless Browsing: Do They Lead to Serendipitous Learning, describes this latent skill as “intuitive [discernment],” which comes ...
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	Give without remembering.

Practical Tips: Reorient Your Experience

“Every word counts.” I hear that all the time from my coach. She’s referring to the fact that we are so time pressed that we usually hear only the first part of what someone is saying. But it’s also critical to remember that we have the ability to reorient our experiences by how we speak about them. Our language is how we make sense of the world.
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I work with a nudge. He’s constantly pushing me to move things forward as if I don’t know what I’m doing. He’s infuriating! How can I keep him from doing this? R.B., Jersey City, NJ

It sounds like this “nudge” is pushing your buttons. When you feel this way, it’s important to understand why this behavior is getting under your skin. Usually when we have strong reactions to others’ behavior, we’re reacting to old situations.
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