So

we've got the serendipity journal. We've got the hook strategy. What else? What are some other ways that people can apply what we've gone through today to try and get a bit more luck in their lives? Well,

look, I had two near-death experiences in life. So I'm a huge fan of actually trying to not have near-death experiences in your life, but to actually have the same logic that a lot of people like me have when you face death, which is you just don't care about a lot of things anymore because you're like, you know what? When you're on your deathbed, you won't care about if you have four or five cars in your garage, and you won't care about so many things you think you care about now. And I'm a big fan of, you know, I would literally Google deathbed regrets where there's a nurse that wrote down the kind of top deathbed regrets of people who she had on her deathbeds. And it's always the same things, right? It's always, I wish I had lived a life truer to myself. I wish I had spent more time with the people I love and more meaningful connections with them and stuff like that. And so I think to me, this is really at the absolute core of everything we just talked about. Serendipity is about potentiality. It's about who we could be, who others could be. And one thing that can really help us figure this out is to become clear about who do I want to be? What are the kind of being at values, being at kind of non-negotiable values that I feel I want to stand for? So when I'm on my deathbed, that's what I will be happy about, what I'll be proud of. So I'm a big fan of this kind of premortem where you're essentially saying, OK, how do I think about now what I would regret on my deathbed if I would run in front of a car tomorrow? And I think to me, this comes to a bigger point, Chris, which is I think we always assume, you know, there's a lot of times to still, you know, do the things that feel really meaningful. So, for example, a lot of my students, they first go into a job that they don't enjoy that much because it gives them a lot of money and networks. And then later on, they do the things they really care about. And one conversation we have a lot is that, yes, like by any means, like if you have student debt and everything else, you got to do something to pay that back. And at the same time, don't assume that you have a lot of time. Like don't assume that, you know, life might not be over very quickly. So try to do as much as you can now that actually gives you something meaningful. So if you join XYZ Bank by any means, find out on day one if there's a board member who is excited about similar issues as you are. And can you then get that bank to tackle those issues or something like this where you leverage them as a platform then towards what you're really excited about and build that meaning into it. And I think that comes back to our earlier point that even in those situations where some people might say, oh, I have to work in this bank now for five years before I can do X was that no, try to figure out within this bank if you can somehow develop leverage. A lot of times it's interns who build the most meaningful stuff by finding a couple of people, a couple of champions, and then within the organization, then do something really meaningful. And so I think it's really about, you know, going on our deathbed and saying, what would I regret? And then thinking from there, what's meaningful to us and trying to find the people who feel meaningful to us. I think to your point, right? What are the kind of communities that feel meaningful to us, the kind of themes and so on? There's

a guy, Alex Hormozzi, who's coming on the show next month. And he recently sold his business for some insane amount of money. And he put a tweet out the other day that said, stop saying that 50 years old is middle-aged. The average life expectancy of a man in the United States is 75.5 years old. He said 37 years old is middle-aged. You have way less time than you think. And that's back to your point, right? That you do kind of need to remember that the clock ticks down to death. It doesn't tick up from birth. That's the way that your life is going. There is a limited number of books that you get to read for the rest of your life there are a limited number of netflix shows and meals out with friends and time that you get to spend with your parents and time that you get to spend with your kid and so on and so forth you need to make sure that you use them right and a lot of the time if, if you haven't done that pre-mortem, if you haven't looked at what is the direction that I want to go in, perfect to what you said earlier on, you think that you want to go to Rome. And halfway along the journey, you realize that that wasn't even the place that you were supposed to end up at. And yeah, going through life to find out not only that you didn't mean to get there, but that you wanted to be somewhere else as well. That's a pretty dangerous situation to be in. So yeah, I hope that that has scared some people into realizing they should probably do a little bit of reassessment.

Well, and to your point, I feel it's fascinating once you then face death, I think Steve Jobs says it beautifully, right? That like, of course, emotionally, like in those kind of situations when he got cancer, right? He had this beautiful sentence that death can be life's greatest motivator, right? Imagine a situation where if you would live forever, right? I mean, what kind of sense of urgency would you feel? What kind of sense of meaning would you feel when you know, yeah, whatever I do, like I'll still be here in like 50,000 years, so whatever, right? Versus like now that you know, actually, I only have a limited amount of time. Maybe that also can be meaningful in that sense. And so I actually, you know, I spend a lot of times after my first and second native experience with people who have cancer, for example, and other terminal diseases. And what I found fascinating is how many of them have then found a deep purpose. So, for example, taking the cancer and say, this will be a campaign now, and I'll run this like I ran a campaign in politics or X, Y, Z, X, Y, Z, and I will inform others about how we can go about this and, you know, set up a foundation on it, you name it. And so the point is that I think it's kind of, hopefully, it never comes to kind of those things, right, terminal disease, and so which obviously is the worst thing that can happen. And at the same time, I think this question of how do we think about that, yes, life can be short, but also maybe that's not a bad thing in the sense that it can give us meaning to actually focus now on the things that are truly meaningful. And then, you know, I don't know if you're watching. I just started watching this show. Now I'm forgetting the name, but it's all about this kind of upload where essentially people then get digitally uploaded and then they download again. And it's just a fascinating kind of whole thing. I forgot the name of it. But my point is, who knows what happens afterwards, right? Who knows what comes next? So let's make the best of what we can do here. Dr.

Christian Bush, ladies and gentlemen, if people want to keep up to date with what you do, where should they go? So

the homepage is theserendipitymindset.com. I'm at chrisserendip on Twitter and the book is in bookstores around the world.

Thanks, mate. I appreciate you. Thanks

so much.