Brian Klaas

And it was produced by this accident and then experimentation, right?

And I think, to me, this is one of the big takeaways that people can use in their own lives is to think –

okay, if I have the hubris to believe that I understand and can control the world, then I won't ever try new things, right?

But if I understand that the world is constantly in flux, that there are small things that can make a big difference and so on, maybe I'll experiment five to 15% more in my life

There's a lot of studies that show that this makes happier people.

And there are a lot of studies that also shows it makes for more resilient solutions.

So I think this is the one big lesson that I wish that people would internalize is that in the face of uncertainty, in the face of chance and chaos, you can't tame it.

You can't overcome it.

You can adapt to it.

And the way to adapt to it is by building resilience into your life and experimenting a heck of a lot more than you normally do.

Yeah, the one example of this that I absolutely love that's from the animal kingdom is how the human eye came to be.

And it's just undirected experimentation.

And eventually, nature's created this unbelievably complex eye.

But the extraordinary bit is that if you look at octopus eyes and human eyes, they're almost identical.

They're totally, totally different species.

And the reason is because through experimentation, nature came up with a solution that worked twice, right?

And I think this is a parable for us.

It's to say that, you know, the more that you sort of just think solution A is good enough is the sort of end of innovation.

And I think this is where a lot of us, you know, I think about my own life prior to Fluke as well, prior to writing this book, I experimented a heck of a lot less.

And I think that it was because I sort of figured that's fine.