What were the odds? The beauty (and sometimes peril) of chance encounters.

23/05/2025 8 min Episodio 39
What were the odds? The beauty (and sometimes peril) of chance encounters.

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Episode Synopsis

What chance encounters have shaped your life? Don't you look back on them with a sense of wonder — what were the odds?! I'll talk about this phenomenon and also put in a good word for its social cousin, small talk with strangers, even if you're an introvert like me.
 
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Music: Jens East — Daybreak (ft. Henk) www.soundcloud.com/jenseast
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution V4.0

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