Chapter 28
Magic
The world is full of infinite possibilities appearing, hovering, evaporating, and reforming … on repeat. This reality can feel paralyzing until you surrender to the fact that so much of what happens is beyond your control. When we pair this with a striving for possibility, we enter the realm of magic. By “magic” we mean the sudden leaps of insight, the serendipitous encounters, the fortuitous events, and the exquisite moments that seem too good to be true. Stanford professor Tina Seelig describes these moments as luck (both good and bad), defined as success or failure apparently caused by chance. She emphasizes apparently as “the operative word. It looks like chance because we rarely see all the levers that come into play.” ...
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