1 post tagged “serendipity”
It is the most natural and comfortable thing in life to sink into a
rut. Our routines aren't usually just blind habit, they usually develop
that way for very good reasons. I don't think that ruts are bad per se,
but that it is good to be aware of them. Sometimes the only way to know
that
you've been in a rut is the intense feeling of oddness which occurs
when for whatever reason, you step out of the rut.
An accident is the most common way that I discover a rut. It doesn't
have to be a horrible thing like a car accident - although that too
will usually do the trick for people unfortunate enough to have one.
For me it was something as small as misplacing the backpack I take with
me on the train to work. Deprived of my usual reading and writing
material, I had to think of different ways of spending my time on the
train.
I ended up borrowing a book from my workplace (an academic business library) which I never would have read otherwise.
Why did I think I would never have read this? No huge reasons - I've
never really felt a need or reason to read Scoble's blog (not that I
think it's bad or anything) and the idea of learning more about blogs in the
book medium seemed kind of lame. But there is something about the
medium of books which makes it a good microscope for studying any subject in depth, including blogs.
And the rut? It's still there, and I will eventually fall back into it or the next one, but before I do, I want to see if I can take a look at a few other things differently.
