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Numberplay: Rare Coincidences Are Very Common!

By PRADEEP MUTALIK
Posted: July 19, 2010.

Print: New York Times blogs

excerpt:

You throw a dart at random on to a dark wall, and shine a flashlight to see where it went. Wow, it hit a bull’s eye! Amazing! Very few of us bother to turn on the light switch. The flashlight of our selective attention blinds us to the underlying reality. It turns out that the whole wall is tiled with bull’s eyes! Moreover, throughout your life you take thousands of potshots at them.

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The above statement was so true and let me explain my point of view about that. Some says, your personality can be determined on how you deal your life—who and what you are right now is simply the reflection of yourself, inside out. We’ve been comparing our journey in life same as like playing a role in a drama in a theater, so as we think in the reality that are actually the one who makes our life miserable or successful—come to think of it that our decisions are our future. In all walks of life, there they call the loser and the winner so, if you came to be the LOSER, so that what’s you want, if you came to be the WINNER, then you really deserve it. So, think of it, loser or winner.

posted on August 3, 2010
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