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Basic survival skills
How to prioritize needs in survival situations
How to adapt to extreme situations
Telling the story of a lottery win, one might say: 'My wife bought me a lottery ticket and, wouldn't you know it, it won.' This simple story represents two events - the ticket purchase and the ticket draw for the win - and relates them as the surprising intersection of separate chains of causation, with no interesting common cause between them.
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Being open to serendipity, watching for it, celebrating it, and even bringing it about is a meaningful way of moving through the world and finding more meaning in life.
The act of riding a wave, a fortunate coalescence between skill and circumstance, is a sort of serendipity. The stories su...
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Surfing is a sublimely beautiful, profoundly meaningful, indeed totally awesome thing to do with one's limited time in life, just for its own sake. It is, by itself, reason enough to be alive rather than not.
There are ways of coping with the seeming meaningless of existence, such as eatin...
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