Nothing happens in a void. 

Concurrence is the art of recognizing and using favorable events in real time to catalyze your purpose.

Concurrence works in tandem with timing, but it isn’t an active tool, it’s a measurement: it tracks the composite influence of external events, which are outside of your control, on your desired outcome.

It’s easy to recognize concurrence looking back through history. 

In its positive manifestations it creates schools of thought whose principles permeate every aspect of culture: the Da-Da movement, Renaissance, postmodernism.

Ideas outside the trend rarely have enough momentum to swim against its strength and meet significant resistance to being turned into reality. 

Sometimes they create new trends, but that is less likely than winning the lottery.