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Synchronicity is a concept developed by psychologist Carl Jung to describe a perceived meaningful coincidence.

In his most famous description of synchronicity, Jung told a story about a man named Monsieur Deschamps and plum pudding. Deschamps’ neighbor, Monsieur de Fontgibu, gave him plum pudding. In Paris ten years later, Deschamps orders plum pudding in a restaurant but discovers that the last serving was sold to de Fontgibu, who is unexpectedly in town and at that same restaurant. Years later, Deschamps is once again offered plum pudding at a social gathering. As Deschamps tells the gathering about the earlier coincidences, he is shocked to see de Fontgibu come in the door.

Skeptics argue that the perception of synchronicity is better explained as the human tendency to seek and perceive connections between unrelated phenomena.

Sometimes you just FEEEEEL lucky. Where does that come from? Also, do you believe in serendipity?

“The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident”

“A talent for making fortunate discoveries while searching for other things”

The word derives from Serendip, the Persian name for Sri Lanka and was coined by Horace Walpole on 28 January 1754.

“It was once when I read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of. For you must observe that no discovery of a thing you are looking for comes under this description”.

By sagacity (wisdom) he means being able to link together apparently innocuous facts to come to a valuable conclusion.

My mate Nigel was driving up the M1 when he had a vision that the numbers on a road sign denoting the distance in miles of various towns were a prediction of that week’s lottery numbers. Now, not only did he use those numbers but he also went into a betting shop and bet that the same numbers would come up the next week. He is now a multi-billionaire but still goes to work as an office clerk. (The last sentence isn’t true).