Revved! : An Incredible Way to Rev Up Your Workplace and Achieve Amazing Results by Harry Paul and Ross Reck (Kindle Edition)

Serendipity is the accidental discovery of something wonderful while you’re searching for something else.  I remember once searching through a set of files looking for a particular letter and found a check for $1,200 that I had long forgotten about—I was ecstatic.  Recently, a group of researchers that included author Clive Custler, were searching for the remnants of a passenger plane that crashed into Lake Michigan in 1950.  What they found instead was the wreck of a 60 foot single-masted ship that had sunk in the 1830s.  The vessel is sitting upright and is in fairly good condition—a very exciting discovery.  As one of the researchers commented, “Sometime when you’re looking for one thing, you come across another.”  Serendipity is life’s way of rewarding people who put time and energy into searching for things.  So, if you want to experience serendipity, you have to do a little searching.