Do we always expect life to be life-y or does it sometimes work out "better than expected" for you?

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I hope you enjoy this podcast episode. Let's get straight to it. Better than expected.

Sometimes, life gets seriously lifey, and we are left sideswiped by the unexpected.

One day, I will tell you the story of a week in August this year.

I can't tell the story yet because I am still reeling from parts of it.

I'm still processing it, but in good time, it will become a rearview mirror story.

My perspective will change and I'll share the parts of it that feel comfortable to share as a learning experience for us all.

In the opposite way, life gets lifey, and we get surprised by the good things too, sometimes things we didn't even know we needed.

And because I don't like the binary, the a or b, the black or white, things are awesome on one hand versus things are terrible on the other.

Let's not forget there is everything on the life scale in between, including average, okay, and fine.

A lot of us have a tendency to seek out information to support our existing beliefs. This is called confirmation bias.

Oh, it's raining today, and I've just had my hair done. Of course, it is.

I'm going on holiday, and I've come down with a virus. Of course, I have.

That t shirt I bought last week, full price, is now on sale at 75% off. Of course, it is.

Are we ever looking for the better than expected belief?

Two things that spring to mind for me, one personal and one professional, I'd like to tell you about.

In the middle of last year, I had been assessing an expedition and was standing in the middle of a field telling a fellow

assessor how much I missed having my dog with me on expeditions.

She had a beautiful 9 month old black lab with her, and I was making a fuss of the dog and saying what a beauty she was.

The assessor told me that her dog's sibling was about to need to be re homed as his own