## Discover How Small Events Shape Our World
**What can chaos theory teach us about everyday life?**
In the same eye-opening spirit as Malcolm Gladwell’s *The Tipping Point* and Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s *The Black Swan*, social scientist and *Atlantic* writer **Brian Klaas** reveals why tiny, random events can send our lives—and history itself—down dramatically different paths.
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### Imagine Rewinding Your Life
- **Press rewind.** Start your life over from day one.
- **Hit play again.** Would everything unfold the same way?
- **Small detours matter.** A mis-dialed phone call or a missed highway exit could ripple out to reshape not only your future but the broader course of events.
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### Inside *Fluke*
In *Fluke*, Brian Klaas:
1. **Explores random chance** and the chaos it injects into human affairs.
2. **Challenges the “storybook” view** that life follows neat, predictable plots.
3. **Shows how hidden forks in the road** create alternate realities we never see—yet they determine everything that actually happens.
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### Why This Matters
Understanding the power of randomness:
- **Reframes how we think about success and failure.**
- **Builds humility** about our ability to predict outcomes.
- **Encourages resilience** when life’s surprises strike.