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Some people call them magical moments. It’s all the times when suddenly what we’ve been dreaming about, looking for, or looking forward to so much happens on the spur of the moment, hugging each other as we cross the corner or appearing in the inbox of our email address. Just when we had stopped looking, fate offers us its unexpected gift.
In an unpredictable, chaotic and complex world like a dead end labyrinth, these magical moments are more common than we think. There are those who link these facts to the so attractive science of “luck”, but in reality experts on the subject know that these unforeseen events, in which desires become reality or we are touched with the wand of opportunity, hide a little science and a lot of psychology.
To give an example of this same fact, we have a very interesting book. In “The Medici Effect”, by Frans Johansson, the author explains how in some cases it is not enough to be an expert in a field to be successful. In fact, devoting all of our effort, time and energy to a single goal does not guarantee that we will achieve it either. Sometimes you have to step back, take on other perspectives, and apply less linear and more creative, relaxed, patient, and original thinking to reach a goal.
In turn, we cannot forget another interesting point: in some cases, the most unexpected actions are guided by our subconscious. Just when our conscious, rigid, sometimes obsessive and always analytical mind sets a certain distance, it awakens this sixth sense that, believe it or not, is never wrong.
We propose a reflection on this.
Even if you stop looking, your mind is still receptive
Andrea has a small business that is not doing so well. She knows that her bakery is no longer profitable and that in a few months she will have to close it down. She has been trying for several weeks to think of what she can do, but between the pressure, the anxiety and the sadness of closing this family business, tears are falling down her face. She feels drained. However, this very morning she got up much more calm as she told herself that whatever happens, everything will be right.
He took a shower feeling a very pleasant calm and a great peace of mind. While taking a shower, he received a notification on his cell phone from one of his social networks. When she picked up the phone, Andrea quickly had an idea: take her business online, advertise her store on social media and create sweets and desserts for parties and events!
This is a simple example of how our mind works when we stop pressing it, and how its receptivity intensifies when we move it away from the forest of worries and fears. However, in this classic of looking for the “magic moment” another equally interesting dimension emerged that is worth analyzing: intersectional thinking.
intersectional thinking
People have a very common habit: trying to predict everything that can happen if they do or don’t do certain things. This often forces us to create in our minds veritable “Excel documents” in which to organize columns, analyze data, correlate variables and make exhaustive, sometimes a little fatalistic predictions.
Instead of making use of such a linear and analytical left hemisphere, it will be much more useful to apply intersectional thinking, which is characterized by the following skills:
- Being able to create connections between information and stimuli that have nothing to do with each other.
- The person skilled in intersectional thinking is able to find calm amidst chaos.
- In the midst of this mental palace of peace and balance, the person who uses this focus of thought is able to connect with everything that surrounds him because he remains open, because he is receptive and curious, because he likes to “play” with all the information that receives, experimenting, discarding, inventing and transforming…
Furthermore, this type of profile is not obsessed with looking for a single solution, a single solution or answer to your problems. Most of the time, he lets himself be carried away by what happens in his surroundings and accepts the unexpected, the fortuitous.
Luck is, in the end, knowing how to recognize opportunities
To get lucky in life sometimes the right circumstances need to occur. However, for these circumstances to materialize before us, our brain needs to lead us to these points, and it is also he who must know how to recognize the opportunity where we, perhaps, only see a closed door.
With all this, we want to make one aspect clear: luck doesn’t know magic, casualties do exist, but they are often “causalities” engendered by this exceptional and wonderful organ in which we should trust much more. Only when we remove anxieties, limiting attitudes, fears and obsessions from our mind, everything expands and transforms, the whole brain starts functioning 100% allowing us to be receptive, giving us the chance to hear this inner voice and always knew that it often guides us to the real opportunities.
So, rather than obsessively focusing on looking for that event we so long for, let’s learn to be more receptive, to see the world through the eyes of a bird rather than through a keyhole.
