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Proof the universe occasionally forgets to hold a grudge.
means An additional opportunity to do, try, or get something right after an initial attempt has failed or gone wrong.
from A transparent compound of two old workhorses. 'Second' comes from Latin 'secundus,' meaning 'following' (literally 'the one that follows'), built from 'sequi,' 'to follow' — the same root that gives us 'sequel' and 'sequence.' 'Chance' arrived through Old French 'cheance,' a fall of the dice, from Latin 'cadere,' 'to fall' — so a chance is literally how the dice come down. Put them together and you have 'the dice falling a second time,' which is exactly what a second chance feels like: the universe agreeing to reroll.
- brain wiring
- Neurons rewire after failure, literally learning from regret
- recidivism
- Education in prison cuts reoffending by over 40 percent
- language origin
- "Mulligan" means a free do-over in golf
- biology
- Liver can regenerate from just 25 percent of itself
- second wind
- Endurance athletes get a literal physiological reset mid-race
tyson vs holyfield ii — mike tyson's 1997 comeback fight after prison, though infamously ended with ear-biting
nolan ryan's career — baseball pitcher who threw a no-hitter at age 44 in 1990, 18 years into his comeback
robert downey jr — actor cast as iron man in 2008 after years of addiction and legal troubles derailed his career