Accidental Creative Problem-Solving ... on Purpose?

Accidental Creative Problem-Solving ... on Purpose?

I was working on a story titled “All-Time-Worst Pitch … Made Me Rich,” when I ran into a perplexing problem.  A total roadblock. How to simplify a complex story - one that involved quantum physics, cancer, depression, hope against all odds and the ephemeral topic of “miracles?”

The story was about a terminally ill cancer patient.

Third Time Was a Charm, but So Were the First and Second Times

He also happened to be a licensed clinical neuropsychologist and an international best-selling author who actually ended up surviving his “terminal” illness, after dying, not once, not twice … but three times.

Part of the story delved into the concept of synchronicity―finding meaning in causally unrelated (”acausal”) coincidences and events―events that greatly stretch the probabilities of chance and even belief sometimes. The doctor in the story believed the concept of synchronicity helped him understand and survive his “terminal” disease. The trick, he believed, was to become aware of these happenings (events and coincidences) and to seek meaning in them.

Some synchronicity events create puzzling paradoxes that seem beyond our understanding of reality. They conflict with fundamental principles of our reason, but nonetheless, they happen.

” A paradox is not a conflict within reality. It is a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality should be like.” - Richard Feynman, American physicist

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