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Purposeful Accident

Reuben Fang February 28, 2016 User Submitted Oxymora

“Purposeful Accident” – Something that happened by accident but resulted into something meaningful.

Eg: “It was as if by some purposeful accident that we share the same differences on gender inequality.”

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  • Larry G. Maguire

    This topic is something I had been considering for a while, although I was calling it the plan of no plan. Then I read about it in The Creativity Post; http://www.creativitypost.com/create/a_formula_for_creativity_stop_looking_for_one_and_try_this_instead

    Subsequently I applied the concept to my own life experience and wrote about it here; https://larrygmaguire.com/purposeful-accident-planning/

    The world seems obsessed with planning to the end degree. Not to plan is broadly considered immature or unsophisticated. At worst, those of us who are seen to be less than precise on certain tasks are thought to be flakey and unreliable.

    I prefer to think of this as being aligned with the natural order of things – in cooperation with that which comes of itself.

    Regards, Larry

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