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The Drunkard's Walk
- How Randomness Rules Our Lives
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
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Publisher's Summary
The rise and fall of your favorite movie star or the most reviled CEO - in fact, all our destinies - reflects chance as much as planning and innate abilities. Even Roger Maris, who beat Babe Ruth's single season home-run record, was in all likelihood not great but just lucky.
How could it have happened that a wine was given five out of five stars by one journal and called the worst wine of the decade by another? Wine ratings, school grades, political polls, and many other things in daily life are less reliable than we believe. By showing us the true nature of chance and revealing the psychological illusions that cause us to misjudge the world around us, Mlodinow gives fresh insight into what is really meaningful and how we can make decisions based on a deeper truth. From the classroom to the courtroom, from financial markets to supermarkets, from the doctor's office to the Oval Office, Mlodinow's insights will intrigue, awe, and inspire.
Offering listeners not only a tour of randomness, chance and probability but also a new way of looking at the world, this original, unexpected journey reminds us that much in our lives is about as predictable as the steps of a stumbling man afresh from a night at a bar.
What the critics say
"If you're strong enough to have some of your favorite assumptions challenged, please listen to The Drunkard's Walk....a history, explanation, and exaltation of probability theory....The results are mind-bending." ( Fortune)
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- DJS
- 2021-10-05
enlightening
really enjoyed this listen. historical background was interesting and the topic was covered in an easy to understand manner with supporting examples.
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- Anonymous User
- 2021-05-13
I should just write a random sequence of letters
This is a great title.
The content is great.
The cadence, and timber is great.
The intro is weak as heck. that's why I docked one star.
No, I'm not petty, you are. lol jk
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- tom mills
- 2019-03-01
Pretty Dry
Good for higher thinkers most likely.. pretty dry read for the most part. I don't know what I was expecting.
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