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There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.
He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.
When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.
Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.
The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.
Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.
The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.
That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.
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a moving man will meet his luck 🥀
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This is disgusting behavior...to have once considered yourself a friend, only then, to later even remotely suggest, joking around while knowing full-well the toll that this takes on everyone involved, including @DrDisrespect's family, is outrageous--especially considering Nick is now a Father.
What Doc did was awful--he shared so himself, but making a mockery of it, while also knowing they reconciled, and share a daughter who went through this too, that's also terrible. People CAN make mistakes, and still be human. People CAN still grow, learning from, as Doc put it himself, "stupid fucking mistakes". Nick may not have cheated on his wife, but God forbid, if that EVER happened, would he also have the stones to publicly admit his mistakes in front of a camera and his entire community? I somewhat doubt this.
Infidelity is no joke--especially when a child is involved, but what's more egregious? The fact that it happened yet they were able to reconcile, or actually think of the kind of person it takes to have once have been a friend, personally witnessing the toll it took on Doc as a Man, only to later so easily throw back in Doc's face, as some kind of "sick burn", something that clearly impacted him and his family so deeply, that the guy literally, in-tears, admitted his own complacency in front of a camera to his community and the entire world, and yet still, despite the internet being as brutal as it can be, despite the plethora of other Creators, who like Nick, are filled with so much vitriol and toxicity, that they try to exploit that moment of weakness in publicly making a mockery of Doc's own trials and tribulations, for what?
For content--knowing full-well the pain involved, the people impacted, knowing that yet despite this, he and his family were STILL able to find a way together, to STILL somehow make amends, not only in just moving forward, beyond his mistake, but to actually, despite all odds, and so much public toxicity against Doc and his family, to STILL come out stronger than before, to grow, learn, and once again face that SAME Community, so much better and more unified--THAT is special kind of adversity and growth as a Man--infinitely stronger, and vastly more real than ANYTHING Nick could EVER fathom, and he thinks it's a sick burn to throw in Doc's face?
Peace and love my ass, yeah, he's laughing, but in showing this much vile, and utterly heinous vitriol in taking such a cheap shot, making such a suggestion--despite laughing, only reveals that Doc's comments in reality, struck a nerve, bothering him so much that he can't come up with anything other than a cheap shot, which serves no purpose other than to further even MORE hate and toxicity, revealing a potential double-standard in what he claims MFAM is supposedly all about. Saying this was a choice. If Nick doesn't know ANY OTHER WAY to disparage the comments from Doc, that alone is extraordinarily telling. Perhaps there's a hint of truth in those comments?
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Nickmercs rants about DrDisrespect once again 😳 “joke of a human, go cheat on your wife again you f**king loser.”
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@JayLeeto and his community do not seem to understand that being a white person on twitch, you are not allowed to say the n word AS FREELY as a black person.
He thinks that this partnered streamer @defexe has every right to say it if he wants to. He also thinks white people saying nigga is funny and acceptable. This clip is old but Jay and everyone else says he says it everyday every stream.
Truly sad he endorses this behavior. During black history month at that.
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