The beast has a name - "Serendipity"

 


There are numerous definitions for Serendipity:

  • the faculty of making desirable but unsought-for discoveries (Macquarie Dictionary)
  • the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. "a fortunate stroke of serendipity" (Oxford Dictionary)
  • the fact of finding interesting or valuable things by chance (Cambridge Dictionary)
  • the luck some people have in finding or creating interesting or valuable things by chance (Collins Dictionary)
  • the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for (Merriam-Webster)
  • an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident, good fortune, good luck (Dictionary.com)
  • a happy accident or an unplanned fortunate discovery (Wikipedia), and
  • hundreds more variations.
The favoured variation for us:

"finding something nice while looking for something else".

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