"We start to see bridges"

“Once we stop obsessing about our lack of resources and look to enable individuals and give them dignity, we find that, instead of beneficiaries looking for our help or employees worried about budgets, we have stimulated people who start creating their own luck.

Reframing helps to create serendipity by enabling people to see potential events and situations and feel they have the capacity to act on them – to spot the triggers and connect the dots. At the core of this are changes in thought and practice. Once we stop waiting for an opportunity to loudly declare itself, we realize that opportunity is all around us if we keep our mind open and release it from closed templates and frames.

When we do not take structures and constraints for granted, we look at the world with different eyes. We start to see bridges where others see gaps.”

Trecho retirado de "The Serendipity Mindset" de Christian Busch.