Category — resistance training

The other day I learned that the discovery of Bubble Gum was by accident.

A fellow, who worked at the gum factory, was trying some different formulas and discovered quite by accident that his formula (a) allowed bubbles to be blown, and (b) when they burst, they were dry on your face and didn’t leave a mess.

The first version was clear colored. Boring. So he decided to add some food coloring to it, and the only color he had on hand was pink. Voila! Double Bubble brand bubble gum was born. And to this day, bubble gum is traditionally pink.

ACCIDENT BECOMES SOMETHING NEW

There is a saying that “It Steam-Engines at Steam-Engine Time.” Meaning that a thing appears when its time has come. That when conditions are right, the new idea emerges. And we see examples of this throughout history. Marconi and Tesla were both busy inventing the radio at the same time on opposite sides of the globe.

Maybe the time was right, but I stumbled onto the Three Minute Gym quite by accident.

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