Flagship Interview Podcast: 🎙️ A Curious Worldview Article Attached To This Podcast! - https://atlasgeographica.com/christian-busch-serendipity/ Life can be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards. How can we predict a future of infinite possibilities based on a finite experience of the past?  Along the lines of Taleb's fooled by randomness metaphor - we all cross the busy street every day - and although some fools will occasionally make it to the other side, blindfolded to the world while others who meticulously path their way will still be wiped out - noticing the serendipity, noticing the infinite potential of divergent paths, at least this returns to you the liberty of control and hopefully, if your lucky, an exposure to serendipity that can change your life precisely the way you dreamt it would. There is much to this podcast, in it, you can expect to learn about... Frederick Hayek on SerendipityThe opportunity cost of always optimising for SerendipityAn international look at how different cultures experience randomnessSome Nassim Taleb of courseAnd then finally I ask Christian for some advice (you will see, forcing a type of serendipity)Jump In On My Newsletter 📋 🔑 - https://atlasgeographica.com/subscribe Feel Free To Peruse My 📷 Instagram & Twitter 🐦 Mates! ----- 00:00 - Introduction 06:10 - Distinction Between Randomness & Serendipity 10:30 - Hayek On Serendipity 18:00 - Great Anecdotes Of Serendipity From History 19:00 - The Opportunity Cost Of Always Optimising For Serendipity 26:05 - How Serendipity Is Understood Across Different Cultures 36:40 - On Cultivating Serendipity 41:10 - Introducing Nassim Taleb, The Birthday Paradox & Exponential Functions 50:22 - Optimising Serendipity For A Hypothetical Person 60:16 - Afterthoughts -------- Also my interview podcasts - 🎙️ A Curious Worldview - has had and will continue to have some of the most interesting voices in the world on to speak about whatever the extension of our mutual interests are at the time - https://curiousworldview.buzzsprout.com/ My new Geopolitics & Power Podcast - Interesting tidbits from around the world documenting major geopolitical moves or projects you might have missed. Share this with one smart friend! 🎙️The Geopolitics & Power Podcast: https://geopoloticsandpowerpodcast.buzzsprout.com/ AND finally.... join thousands of over people and sign up to my monthly newsletter 'A Curious Worldview' https://atlasgeographica.com/subscribe/ NOW pump your juice into the algorithm and leave a review for this podcast! 5 stars and a comment would be magnificent :) Thanks for listening mate :) Contact me 🐦 for feedback and also for recommendations on what future episodes should be! Twitter @faulkos