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Thought my luck with people was just random until I met a guy at a bus stop in Portland who turned out to be my future business partner
I was totally skeptical of that whole 'meet someone by chance and something good comes of it' idea for 30 years, but after missing my bus and chatting for 15 minutes about woodworking with a stranger who was also heading to the same lumber yard, we started a side gig selling custom cutting boards that made us both an extra $2,000 last month.
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finleym4319d ago
Man, I get what you're saying but I gotta push back a little here. I've had plenty of random chats with strangers at bus stops and the only thing that came of it was a weird story and maybe a spare dollar for coffee. More often than not, those "chance meetings" just ended with me being late or stuck listening to someone’s life story that went nowhere. The whole "meet your destiny at a bus stop" thing feels like Survivorship Bias to me - you only hear about the one time it worked out, not the 50 times people just walked away.
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susan13019d ago
Yeah, that "survivorship bias" thing is a good point. But here's something nobody's brought up yet. Maybe the real problem isn't the bus stop itself, but that we're all walking around with our faces in our phones. I bet if you sat there without scrolling, just looking at people, the odds of something interesting happening would go way up. Have you ever tried just staring at the bus stop sign for ten minutes instead of checking your notifications?
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