015 - The Serendipity Mindset with Christian Busch

Startups, Sparks and Serendipity

This week we met with our first guest, Christian Busch and had a special conversation about serendipity. What is serendipity? How can we actively manage situations to make them more serendipitous? Does luck favor the prepared? How can we increase the surface area of luck? This episode gives a look into how to connect dots to access the serendipities in our lives and how reframing situations and looking at things from unexpected perspectives can make a huge difference. One of our favorite takeaways this week is that we cannot always control the stimuli that may affect us. However we can control our response to it. If we can redefine key moments and reframe our perspective in relation to these stimuli, we can create enormous opportunities for serendipity.

About Christian: Dr. Christian Busch is the director of the Global Economy program at New York University's Center for Global Affairs, where he teaches on purpose-driven leadership, impact entrepreneurship, social innovation, and emerging markets. He is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE) and the co-founder of Leaders on Purpose, an organization convening high-impact leaders, as well as the Sandbox Network, a global community of young innovators active in over 20 countries (Source: SerendipityMindset.com).

Recommendations:

Books:

The Serendipity Mindset by Christian Busch https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/611516/the-serendipity-mindset-by-christian-busch-phd/

Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4069.Man_s_Search_for_Meaning

Tools:

A Serendipity Journal