HAPPY BIRTHDAY @Andrew Lichtenberger ?

I’m not generally much into big birthday celebrations, but I do like taking meaningful actions that I’ll remember. Last time my family went out for a nice meal, and today I spent time working on finishing my second book (more to come on this soon). I also took some time to draw what I’ve heard described as “sacred circuitry”. The idea seems to be that these symbols are representative of the actions associated (written below them). They also seem to have a story boarding element to them, as they themselves expand and grow from 1-15. The recommendation associated is to meditate on them each for 1 minute a day, 3 days in a row, going in order - and then let your creativity take over and guide you if so desired. I’ll be giving it a go over the next few days myself. What do you think about this? Has anyone heard of it before and if so any experiences working with these symbols?

I recently wrote an e-mail about this concept of the 52nd hexagram in the i-Ching is it relates to my last name, Lichtenberger, and the nature of the mountain. This is a fun creative picture I drew in association with this topic. If anyone else is much into drawing here - feel free to share!

Hey all - here's the first episode of my Art of War as it relates to Poker series. I'll be releasing them over the next few weeks. Enjoy and let me know what you think if you watch - thanks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zph8WWMhN0o

I’ve recently found myself revisiting an idea that has fascinated me for years: What if being “lucky” is actually a skill that can be learned? I’ve explored this from a few different angles. Spiritually, I’ve wondered about karma. Do the intentions, energy and actions we put into the world somehow influence the circumstances that eventually find their way back to us? Interestingly, the traditional concept of karma is deeper than the modern idea of “do something good and something lucky will happen.” In Buddhist philosophy, intention matters enormously. Karma literally relates to action, and our intentional actions are believed to produce consequences. Classical Indian philosophy similarly treats karma as a causal relationship between actions and their eventual “fruit.” Whether you accept that literally, metaphorically, or not at all, the concept raises an interesting question: Can the way we live actually change the amount of “luck” we encounter? Then there’s a completely different explanation. Maybe we manufacture luck simply by creating more opportunities for unlikely things to happen. Meet more people. Try more things. Ask more questions. Take intelligent risks. Enter more tournaments. Start more projects. Have conversations with strangers. Go places you normally wouldn’t go. Say YES a little more often. If an opportunity has only a small probability of occurring, sitting on the couch gives it almost no opportunity to find you. Put yourself into enough situations where something could happen, however, and suddenly you’ve increased your exposure to positive randomness. That isn't magic. It's probability. And there’s actually research surprisingly close to this idea. Christian Busch's research on serendipity describes it as something more than blind luck. His systematic review in the Journal of Management Studies identified three components: agency, surprise and value. In other words, something unexpected happens, but a person still has to recognize it and do something with it.