When I began singing 'Conga' athletes from all over the world busted out of formation to dance with me, [and] I thought: 'Wow, what a great choreography!.' I thought it was planned. But then the tower started shaking and I thought: 'Great, first the bus, then the boat, now the tower!'
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- She humorously recalls athletes dancing to her song and interprets a shaking tower as a pattern of bad luck after past accidents.
- In plain terms
- She saw fans dancing wildly and joked that a shaking tower was another sign of bad luck.
- What can you take from it?
- Use humor to cope with perceived bad luck.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do you handle bad luck?
- Do you see patterns in chaos?
Another view
Attributing events to luck may ignore coincidence.
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