Spot the Difference

Many people believe that serendipity can be influenced but not controlled. What can you do to influence your serendipity? Try changing your daily routine, working in different environments, and mixing things up at the workplace. Though we cannot control our luck, we can open our minds and take advantage of positive opportunities.

Alfred Mosher Butts, a New York architect, invented the popular board game Scrabble in 1931. He wanted to create a game which involved some luck and a lot of skill (and a large vocabulary)! Butts decided on the point-values of the letters by studying the front page of the New York Times.

Whilst it might be alright to slurp, there’s a whole list of things which are a definite no-go in Japan – passing food between chopsticks being top of the list. Along with leaving the chopsticks stuck upright in a bowl of rice, these practices have connotations associated with funeral rites in Japan, which naturally diners don’t wish to be reminded of. They are considered very impolite.