Cerrisian Blog

One of m goals over this summer, and in life in general, is to increase my exposure to serendipity. To do this, I’m going to do a couple of things:

• Keep an open mind and find joy and excitement in novelty
• Try to meet and talk to strangers more

The second part is the most difficult to me. I can easily talk to strangers if I don’t know anyone at party, but I have difficulty talking to strangers in the grocery store, or whatever.

The conventional wisdom is basically “Just do it”, which may work. But I’ll have to keep track of it.

I can easily to up and talk to strangers if I have some extrinsic motivation — a dare, or proving a point to someone, the issue is doing it without the extrinsic motivation.

The other part is where exactly, I should go to meet interesting people. I can keep my eyes open everywhere, but I’d like to maximize the opportunity I have as well.

I’m going to make my goal to do the approach, to even annoy or confuse someone, not to get them to respond positively. I’m quite sure I’m able to do that, I just need to follow through.