About the video: “We control nothing but influence everything. » Political scientist Brian Klaas explains how every decision we make, whether massive or tiny, shapes our future.
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How does your entire life change when you decide one morning to hit the snooze button? How could a vacation in a Japanese city prevent a nationwide attack?
Political scientist Brian Klass explains what is commonly called the “butterfly effect,” the idea that tiny changes divert the trajectory of our entire lives.
These “ripples” show us that even if nothing happens “for a reason,” everything we do matters. A random choice has the power to change the course of history. These invisible “chances” influence our lives, our societies and the world as we know it.
0:00 The holidays
1:33 The noise
1:57 Not everything happens for a reason
2:20 p.m. Contingency vs Convergence
3:00 The effect of the Snooze button
4:35 The interconnectedness of life
6:20 p.m. Cosmic goal versus accident
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About Brian Klaas:
Dr Brian Klaas is Associate Professor of Global Politics at University College London, an affiliated research fellow at the University of Oxford, and a contributing editor to The Atlantic. He is also the author of five books, including Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters (2024) and Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us (2021). Klaas writes the popular The Garden of Forking Paths substack and created the award-winning podcast Power Corrupts, which has been downloaded approximately three million times.
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