What does "it found me" mean?
And there are many tools in the toolkit to get you there. I'm going to focus on one that completely changed my life in 2004. It found me then because of two things: a very close friend, young guy, my age, died of pancreatic cancer unexpectedly, and then my girlfriend, who I thought I was going to marry, walked out.

I suppose "it" in "it found me" could refer to the tool (method) "I'm going to focus on".

What's the difference if I say " I found it then because of two things"?

Thank you.

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What does "it found me" mean?
And there are many tools in the toolkit to get you there. I'm going to focus on one that completely changed my life in 2004. It found me then because of two things: a very close friend, young guy, my age, died of pancreatic cancer unexpectedly, and then my girlfriend, who I thought I was going to marry, walked out.

I suppose "it" in "it found me" could refer to the tool (method) "I'm going to focus on".

What's the difference if I say " I found it then because of two things"?

Thank you.

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You are correct in which "it" is the tool which completely changed his life in 2004. "It found me" is different from "I found it" simply because the events he experienced came unexpectedly. He wasn't intending to change his life through forcing his friend to get cancer or purposely make his girlfriend leave him. When we say that we are finding something, it's because we are searching for it. Purpose is what differentiates the two in my opinion.

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