Brian Klaas

And they've screwed up and they haven't gotten him his exact specification grand piano.

All they have is this really, really rickety, awful piano that's supposed to only be used for practice.

And there's no time to fix it, right?

So what happens is he has to experiment with the instrument and sort of play with it and adapt himself to it and sort of just deal with the uncertainty.

And that recording of that concert is the number one selling jazz album of all time.

It is apparently one of the best pieces of jazz music, according to critics, that has ever been produced.

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.