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The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet

The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet
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We place life’s bets by countless calculations of probability, conscious and unconscious, only to discover over and over how short they fall of the wildest reaches of the possible, which always includes but exceeds the probable. It helps to remember that we ourselves are children of improbability, that everything we treasure exists not because it had to, not because it was likely or necessary, but because the universe took a gamble against the staggering odds otherwise. THE WILDEST BET IS THE WINNING BET by Maria Popova You wouldn’t have bet on it, the battered rock orbiting a star from the...
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