We all know that some of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident...
...the grease-fried roast beef sandwich (accidentally dropped in a Los Angeles vat of oil in 1918)... the Slinky (a spring that bwoinged when it fell off of a desk in 1940... the potato chip (a cranky chef tried to get comeuppance on a finicky customer who didn't like his fries, cutting them super thin and dropping them in grease--Saratoga, NY, 1853)... the Post-It Note (a "you got your chocolate in my peanut butter moment"--with one 3M employee realizing that the adhesive mistake of another would keep the little paper bookmarks from falling out of his hymnal)...
There is much good that can come from dropping, flopping, and failing... I just need to figure out what I need to accidentally do.
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