Brian Klaas

The first one is that you should experiment more.

Because if you're certain about things, then you optimize.

But if you're uncertain, then you experiment.

And there's a lot of evidence that shows that experimentation in the face of uncertainty is much better for us.

It also helps us solve problems in our societies as well.

And additionally, on top of that, I think it also is something where you can have a philosophical shift from a worldview in which lots of people sort of obsess about control to one where you give up control but accept influence.

And I think that's the lesson of chaos theory taken seriously is that everything we do has a ripple effect.

We might not know what it is, but it means that, you know, we should think about our lives as meaningful, even on the small stuff.

Because, you know, the sort of mentality of the squished bug or, you know, the conversation that shifts history, this sort of stuff, it's not some parlor game.

It's the way that reality actually functions.

And I think it's a very empowering thought to internalize when we think about our daily life.

Yeah, I mean, so I think this is definitely true.

There's a huge amount of things around success that are out of our control, right?

I didn't choose who my parents were.

I didn't choose where I was born.

I didn't choose when I was born.

All those things had a profound effect on the trajectory of my life.

But what you're referring to, I think, is a really important idea, which is that when we look back, we have these sort of building blocks where we sort of had a plan and then things happened, right?

And they diverted our plan.

But on top of that, there's a lot of things that happened that you're totally, totally blind to.