You never know what you’ll see next. One of the aspects of life that can either delight us or alarm us is that things can be so unpredictable. The new and unanticipated can surprise us at almost any time.
As Nassim Taleb reminded us in his bestselling book, The Black Swan, no one seems to see coming the biggest things that happen. Most prophets of the dramatic turn out to be false. And you would think that the bigger an event is going to be, the more signs of it would exist in advance of its appearance. But we seem caught by surprise, over and over again. Any new day can thwart our expectations, which is an insight that can cheer us up if we’re discouraged, or keep us humble if we’re on a roll. It’s certainly an interesting world.
I like to see the glass as half full of new opportunities every single day. And it happens to be a very big glass.
