In this irreverent and illuminating audiobook, acclaimed writer and scientist Leonard Mlodinow shows us how randomness, chance, and possibility reveal a significant amount about our daily lives, and how exactly we misunderstand the significance of from an informal conversation to a major financial setback. Because of this, successes and failures in lifestyle are often attributed to clear and obvious causes, when in most cases they are more profoundly influenced by chance.

The rise and fall of the about The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Guidelines Our Lives favorite celeb or the most reviled CEO-in fact, all our destinies-reflects chance as much as planning and innate abilities. Actually Roger Maris, who defeat Babe Ruth’s solitary season home operate record, was in all probability not great, but just lucky.

How could it have happened that a wine was given five out of five celebrities by 1 journal and called the worst wine of the decade by another? Wines ratings, school grades, political polls, and many other things in daily life are less reliable than we believe. By displaying us the real nature of opportunity and exposing the emotional illusions that cause us to misjudge the world all around us, Mlodinow gives fresh understanding into what is really meaningful and how we can make decisions based on a deeper truth. From the classroom to the courtroom, from monetary marketplaces to supermarkets, from your doctor’s office towards the Oval Workplace, Mlodinow’s insights will intrigue, awe, and inspire.

Offering listeners not just a tour of randomness, chance and possibility but also a new way of taking a look at the world, this original, unexpected journey reminds us that much inside our lives is approximately as predictable as the steps of a stumbling man afresh from a night at a bar.