What's the Difference?
The first answer that comes to mind is Louis Pasteur's statement, “Chance favors only prepared minds.” But Pasteur's statement begs a question: what exactly is a prepared mind?
If we had to whittle the definition down to one line, we could say that it is an individual's mental readiness to recognize and create new ideas from disconnected experiences. If the skill of motion exposes us to more creative collisions, the raw material of serendipity, the skill of preparation is what allows us to make the mental leaps required to render those collisions meaningful.
The case of the floppy-eared rabbit suggests that there is more to a prepared mind than we might think. When we look at the story closely, there are three clear behaviors ...
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