“A funny thing happens when you ponder. Useful stuff just seems to bubble up and present itself to you. It keeps happening. It’s like the universe wants to help.If only that were true. But it’s just a story you tell yourself to explain what happens when your subconscious is on higher alert. The Force isn’t with you. You’re not getting luckier. You’re being extra attentive and noticing more.”Lowfalutin newsletter—What you need won’t appear until you need it. It happens to me frequently that I’ll realise, with a lurch of the stomach, that while the section of the book I’m working on right now is going fine, I’m about to run into trouble[…]. This bothers me less than it used to, though, because again and again, the missing insight, anecdote, or angle arrives just in time. […]I think I could muster a down-to-earth, non-magical explanation for this phenomenon, to do with the way one’s attention is primed to notice what matters most at any given moment. But it feels pretty magical whenever…
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