Join Randy Preston, a guitarist and coincidence scholar, as he dives into the serendipitous web of synchronicity. He shares how recognizing life's absurdities can lead to profound insights and resilience. Discover the journey behind his innovative app, JottIt, designed to harness synchronicities for self-reflection. Through humor and personal stories, Randy illustrates how connecting with the universe enhances creativity and fosters meaningful relationships. Embrace the mysteries of life and find joy in the unexpected!
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Guitar Pedal Incident Teaches Absurdity
Randy Preston shared a story about accidentally smashing a borrowed guitar pedal and laughing at the absurdity.
He realized life shouldn't be taken too seriously and learned to embrace chaos instead of fearing it.
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AI's Strengths and Limits
AI intelligence weaves around human intelligence and excels at complex tasks but struggles with simple ones.
Balancing AI's strengths and weaknesses is key to effective use.
insights INSIGHT
Synchronicity Guides Decisions
Synchronicities can serve as guides for decision-making and personal growth.
Viewing setbacks as cosmic jokes helps transform stumbling blocks into stepping stones.
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Meet a fervent advocate for synchronicity and AI!Through a cyclone of synchronicities, Guitarist Randy Preston has become a thriving coincidence scholar. He is fully appreciating how they help:*Navigate challenges with resilience.*Build meaningful relationships.*Stay aligned with your purpose.*Find joy and insight in everyday life.*Help with decision making.He is developing an app called JottIt to help people utilize synchronicities to sharpen their self-reflective capacities and receive helpful feedback on how to optimize their lives. He was inspired to develop the app by a mystical experience. From the age of 10, Randy Preston has pursued a life rooted in creativity, connection, and expression, deeply centered around his passion for music and thought experimentation. Always drawn to the strange and beautiful, he’s more recently found himself immersed in profound synchronicities and cosmic insights. He sees this journey as just the beginning of an evolving work in progress - and one that he is excited to share with others. With curiosity, humor, and a sense of wonder, he’s exploring how resonance and the universe’s mysteries shape our lives, inviting all to join him in discovering meaning along the way.Band Instagrams• Des & The Swagmatics: / desswagmatics • Karmic Juggernaut: / karmicjuggernaut Bernard D. Beitman, MD has broken out of the restrictive bounds of conservative academic research to produce a blueprint for the practically-oriented new discipline of Coincidence Studies. He has served as chair of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurology and then as chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He has reached more than one million people through his Psychology Today blog, radio show, website, and two coincidence books, Connecting with Coincidence and Meaningful Coincidences. Yale and Stanford educated, He is the founder and president of The Coincidence Project.https://www.innertraditions.com/books...Visit https://www.coincider.com/ to learn more about Dr. Beitman's research
Connecting with Coincidence 2.0 with Bernard Beitman, MD 
