In this week’s episode of the podcast, we dive into the true meaning of serendipity.
What exactly is serendipity? It’s a term I used to identify with the idea of the serendipity of a book or a movement. It’s a term I learned from the early days of art history, including the art of painting and sculpture.
The term serendipity is used in many places. For example, in a paper that I read recently, a professor of art history discussed the significance of the term in a paper on the idea of artistic “serendipity.” She said she was interested in the concept of serendipity because it was a concept that seemed to be missing from modern art.
I think the term “serendipity” is a good way to think about the idea of artistic serendipity, because it encompasses a broad range of meanings, and in fact, it is used in many ways. One of the ways it is used is to describe the process of getting something done. For example, the poet John Donne wrote that he was serendipitously introduced to a printing press by his patron King Henry VIII.
I didn’t realize the term had been used so widely. However, the concept seems to have a lot in common with the concept of serendipity, which is to say, serendipity is often used in the same terms as serendipity does. I don’t know if the term has spread so much as it has been used, but I hope I’m not the only one who has started to think of it as a proper noun.
I know, I know. I think it’s a good idea to use the term serendipity as a noun. It implies that you’re already on the serengit in the sense that your friend’s serengit is the one that’s being serendipated.
I think serendipity might have been the first word that came to mind when I read the term, but it’s definitely not the only one. For example, serendipity is used as a verb. It means a kind of surprise or phenomenon that comes from someone else; to be surprised at something is to be serendipitously surprised. So in this case, I think serendipity is used in the same way as serendipity does.
I’m probably going to go with serendipity, but I can’t say that for sure because I’ve never heard the word without thinking of the concept of serendipity.
Like I said, serendipity is a good word for the concept of “something that happens because of other things happening and it’s not just randomness.” I think it is used often in the marketing of products and services, but also in advertising, where a product or service is described as “serendipitously” something you didn’t expect or that you were willing to pay for.
A serendipity is something that you think you might sell, but what does that really mean? It means that you might be able to sell it as something that you are not trying to sell. It might also be an ad that is sold at a high price.