Brian Klaas - Fluke: How to Use Chance and Chaos to Your Advantage

Smart People Podcast

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Business, Education, Society & Culture

4.6 • 736 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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If you could rewind your life to the very beginning and then press play, would everything turn out the same? Or could making an accidental phone call or missing an exit off the highway change not just your life, but history itself? And would you remain blind to the radically different possible world you unknowingly left behind? In our episode this week, myth-shattering social scientist Brian Klaas dives deeply into the phenomenon of random chance and the chaos it can sow, taking aim at most people’s neat and tidy storybook version of reality. The good news is, we can USE this understanding of randomness and chaos to our advantage, to see the world more clearly, and to focus on the things that matter. Brian's book, Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters, is available now! Learn more about Brian at brianpklaas.com. Support the Show - Become a Patron! Help us grow and become a Patron today: https://www.patreon.com/smartpeoplepodcast Sponsors: Rocket Money - Cancel your unwanted subscriptions by going to RocketMoney.com/SMART Babbel - Get 55% off your Babbel subscription at babbel.com/spp Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.4	Have you ever heard somebody say that they don't regret anything
0:55.7	because everything they've done has gotten them to this moment
0:59.2	and they wouldn't change it for the world?
1:01.6	I always wondered that because the truth is, yes,
1:05.0	everything you've done has gotten you to this moment.
1:07.6	But what if you would have changed the past
1:09.7	and it would have gotten you to a better moment?
1:13.3	And I'm not saying that's a healthier, good way to look at things, but it is true. Every day we make
1:18.8	thousands of decisions that clearly alter the path of our lives and other people's lives and the
1:26.9	world at large.
1:28.7	I mean, think generationally.
1:30.4	Think about the number of things that need to happen to put you here.
1:32.8	My point is this.
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