Those times when everything comes when you stop looking

Some people call them magical moments or moments. “click”. There are all those times when suddenly, what we were dreaming of, looking for or waiting for so eagerly happens suddenly, hugging us around the corner or appearing in our email inbox… Just when we had stopped looking for the destination we offers his unexpected gift.

In a world that is unpredictable and at times chaotic and complex like a labyrinth with no exit, “click” moments abound more than we think.. There are those who link these facts to the very attractive science of “luck”, but in reality the true experts on the subject know that these unforeseen events, in which wishes suddenly become reality or we are touched with the wand of the opportunities, they hide some 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 explains to us how sometimes it is not enough to be an expert in a field to be successful. In fact, dedicating all our efforts, time and energy to a single objective does not guarantee us 100% that we will achieve it. Sometimes, you have to move away a little, assume other perspectives and apply less linear thinking and one that is more creative, relaxed, patient and original. to achieve a goal.

At the same time, we cannot forget something equally interesting: Sometimes the most unexpected actions are guided by our subconscious. Just when our conscious, rigid, sometimes obsessive and always analytical mind establishes a certain distance, it awakens that sixth sense that, whether we believe it or not, is almost never wrong.

We suggest you reflect on it.

Even if you stop searching, your mind is still receptive.

Andrea has a small business that is not going well at all.. He knows that his bakery is no longer profitable and that in a few months he will have to close it. She has been trying to think about what she can do for several weeks, but between the pressure, anxiety and sadness of closing that family business, it causes tears to instantly fall down his face. She feels exhausted. However, that same morning she woke up much clearer and calmer when she told herself that “That’s it, whatever has to happen happens and everything will be dealt with.”

You have taken a shower feeling a very pleasant calm and adequate peace of mind. While he was showering, he received a notification on his cell phone from one of his social networks. When she picked up the phone, Andrea suddenly had an idea: take her business to the online world, advertise her store on the networks and create designer cakes and desserts for parties and events.

This is a simple example of how our mind works when we stop putting pressure on it, and how its receptivity intensifies when we remove the forest of worries and the thickness of fears from it. However, in this classic search for the “click moment” another dimension that is equally interesting has been applied and is worth stopping by: intersectional thinking.

Intersectional thinking

People have a very common habit: trying to predict everything that can happen if we do or don’t do certain things.. This often forces us to create in our minds authentic “Excel documents” where you can display columns, analyze data, correlate variables and make exhaustive, sometimes somewhat fatalistic, forecasts.

Instead of making use of that linear and analytical left hemisphere, it will be much more useful for us 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 in the midst of chaos. In the midst of this mental palace of peace and balance, the person who uses this thinking approach is able to connect with everything that surrounds him because he remains open, because she is receptive and curious, because she likes to “play” with all the information she receives, testing, discarding, inventing and transforming…

Likewise, this type of profile He is not obsessed with finding a single solution, a single way out or answer to his problems. Most of the time he lets himself be carried away by what happens in his environment and accepts the unexpected, the fortuitous…

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Luck is ultimately knowing how to recognize opportunities

To be lucky in life, sometimes the right circumstances have to happen. However, for these circumstances to materialize before us, it is our brain that must take us to those points and it must also know how to recognize the opportunity where others, perhaps, only see a closed door.

With all this we want to make one aspect clear: Luck does not know magic, coincidences exist but many times they are “causalities” created by that exceptional and wonderful organ. which we should trust much more. Only when we remove from our mind the trap of anxieties, limiting attitudes, fears and obsessions, does everything expand and transform, the entire brain begins to function at 100%, allowing us to be receptive, giving us the opportunity to listen to others. that inner and always wise voice that often guides us towards authentic opportunities.
Therefore, rather than focusing obsessively on searching for that specific fact that we want so much, Let’s learn to be more receptive, to see the world from a bird’s eye view and not from a keyhole.

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