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How the Burnt Toast Theory Can Change Your Life
Setbacks can lead to unexpected blessings and new perspectives
So you’re rushing to get ready for work in the morning and put your bread into the toaster, and the toast burns. Frustrated, you have to throw out that toast and put more bread in the toaster, inevitably, this causes you to leave the house a few minutes later and thus arrive late for work. Now you are agitated that the small inconvenience of burning your toast in the morning has got you off to a bad start to the day.
What if I told you that burnt toast in the morning could have worked in your favour?
Those few minutes you spent prevented a catastrophe you may have faced if you left on time, or it could have altered your day to have a different experience to change your outlook on your life. What if it was life’s way of shifting the trajectory of your day and possibly your future? The Burnt Toast Theory is a concept that invites us to see minor setbacks as hidden opportunities or fortuitous redirections.
Who knows what could have happened that day, had you left on time?
This speaks to the larger idea of keeping a more positive outlook and trusting that things will go right even when it seems like it is not going your way.
