Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
It explores the significant role of randomness in various aspects of life, including the author's personal experiences. The book uses the author's father's experiences in a concentration camp to illustrate the pervasive nature of randomness.
I'm a random effect of something very bad and I hope that for me I'm glad I'm here but I'm only here because Hitler, Nanatis killed my father's previous family and that led to my being here.
— Episode: [Unedited] Leonard Mlodinow with Krista...
Episode: [Unedited] Leonard Mlodinow with Krista Tippett
It explores the significant role of randomness in various aspects of life, including the author's personal experiences. The book uses the author's father's experiences in a concentration camp to illustrate the pervasive nature of randomness.
I'm a random effect of something very bad and I hope that for me I'm glad I'm here but I'm only here because Hitler, Nanatis killed my father's previous family and that led to my being here.
the baker acted like God and somewhat arbitrarily took him under his wing and gave him a job as his assistant in the bakery.
the outline of our lives like the candles flame is continuously coaxed in new directions by a variety of random events that along with our responses to them determine our fate.
Episode: Leonard Mlodinow — Randomness and Choice
This book explores the role of randomness in life. A story from the book about Mlodinow's father's experience in a concentration camp and how a random act of kindness impacted his life was shared.
That was in the drunkardswalk and book is about randomness in life.
To me, when I was thinking about writing that book, I was almost shaken by the realization that I'm a random effect of something very bad.
Episode: [Unedited] Leonard Mlodinow with Krista Tippett
It explores the role of randomness in life, examining how seemingly random events shape our destinies. The author was personally shaken by the realization of his own existence as a random effect of a horrific event.
I'm, you know, a random effect of something very bad and I hope that for me I'm glad I'm here but I'm only here because Hitler, Nanatis killed my father's previous family and that led to my being here.
the outline of our lives like the candles flame is continuously coaxed in new directions by a variety of random events that along with our responses to them determine our fate.
So the drug courts walk which is the title of that book it comes sometimes called the random walk and it comes from a jacket path that. Paracos in Brownie and motion seem to take for no apparent reason.
But the little thing that happens to you other than if it's something random like getting hit by a car but the, in other ways, the little things they really do is they raise opportunities for you or they raise challenges. And the course of your life depends on how you react to those opportunities and challenges that the random this presents to you.
that story he was in the book involved concentration camp and he had stole a stole a loaf of bread. From the bakery and the baker I guess there were certain number of people who had access they lined them all up and brought the guys with the guns and they said who stole the bread.
Episode: Leonard Mlodinow — Randomness and Choice
This book explores the role of randomness in shaping our lives. A specific anecdote from the book, detailing Mlodinow's father's experience in a concentration camp, was discussed to illustrate the impact of random events.
That was in the drunkardswalk and book is about randomness in life.
To me, when I was thinking about writing that book, I was almost shaken by the realization that I'm a random effect of something very bad.
And that story he was in the book involved concentration camp and he had stole a loaf of bread from the bakery.
And now is a physicist and the author of several books including the Drunker to Walk, how randomness rules our lives.
