There's this idea that something should make sense, right? So if a terrible thing happens to you,

there are so many psychology studies that the idea that it was random is so beyond the pale in how we can make sense of the world.

Whereas when something good happens to us, like we win the lottery,

all the lottery winners are like, yeah, I just got lucky.

But like, if I happen to get hit by a bus, surely there was a larger plan.

You know, cause and effect doesn't discriminate between positive and negative news.

It's the same either way, it's just that we process it differently.

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Today my friend Brian Closs back on the show talking about flukes why tiny actions that we take or don't take can have massive

downstream effects and consequences. We explore some historical flukes such as

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