The Black Swan Theory

You are a chicken. Yes, you.

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[onionlayers]

Aperture: you are a chicken
Me: I know where this is going
Aperture:*Starts talking numbers*
Me: I don't know where this is going...

[Andicus]

The worse thing about betrayal is that it doesn't come from an enemy...

[anmuloced]

It'd be interesting to do a compilation of biographies on failed nobodies. What went wrong? Where, why, and how did they fail? How does this compare to others?

[cthoadmin]

“We are all black swan events” what an extraordinary way to put it! How absurdly improbable our very existence is, a brief flash of light between two mighty chasms of darkness. We should revel in our time.

[saurajashripande]

Your voice is so calming it feels relaxed hearing it

[UNGGodYT]

The part that stuck with me was the "knowledge that dont change behavior is useless, but knowledge that changes behavior loses its relevance " 7:19, in one way it means you can only be very useful once, then just useful and finally mundane .
One thing worst than a black swan would be a blue swan, but we can only see in shades of black and white, something lurking around, we just dont see it as it truly is, that happens a lot during the human history, people had all the things needed for something, it just never clicked for them, like the famous " we put man on the moon, before putting wheels in the luggage ".

[RashidTak]

"You are a chicken"
-COD flashback intensifies

[sajandaheriya]

My black swan event is that I got a diagnosis of pure O OCD. I was doing great in my studies, in college getting good grades, and everything was going fine. Then suddenly got the shock of my life; at that time I was not able to handle the shock. My OCD attack's intensity increased, I had 24x7 heightened anxiety with waves of panic attacks, lost 5 kg within 2-3 days, was not able to eat, I thought I will go mad. But now I am able to accept my condition and working on it. The worst part is you can not trust your own brain. It sucks but I know many are going the similar or even worst . Power and love to all.

[sepiasmith]

"the people who failed don't tend to write memoirs." reminds me of "history is written by the winners." the power of overlooking the obvious and mundane is in itself also overlooked.

at the end of the day, though, I've lived with disordered anxiety my whole life and I've learned that you just take what you can learn and keep moving forward. if you dwell so much on the fears of "the next black swan event" you'll be paralyzed and you could argue your preparedness is wasted. and when we learn from history and prevent the known black swan events, that's still valuable. that's still a good thing. just because there will always be another problem doesn't mean the problems you solved don't matter.

[SM_]

I feel the Covid 19 pandemic was a black swan. I look back to pre pandemic and miss it. My entire view on the world, my life, and everything changed so much. It feels so different now. Just sad.

[korey]

Another deep video making me rethink everything for a few days

[ItzMeKiyo]

I was frustrated on not getting a job today and watching aperture calms me even if it is just temporary so that I can feel a sense of serenity.

[MrSchmerzPille]

That ending though.
Funny to imagine, an event as unlikely as "You" to be born, yet it happend to all of us.
A chance so unimaginably small seems so natural to those who've made it.

[CRASS]

Feels like we’ve been in one continuous black swan event since early 2020.

[zacharyewell]

Is it ever really possible to plan for the future? Super interesting how the more we plan for past Black Swans, the more lulled into false security we become. Preparation from the past could enhance naivete in the future.

[roloman]

This is literally philosophy the YouTube channel and it’s brilliant

[cornzzn]

"the odds of being born are 1 in 400 trillion"

when i tell you that sentence made me pause.. y'all

[saisibi]

This video is a masterclass. Shows how tiny our problems are...How one small mishap can just ruin it all.And yet, we march on. Dare I say, one could even call Humanity over-confident for it's own good, but then again, wouldn't being cautious just do nothing anyways, since the Black swan event is bound to hit anyways...(just not the one we expect)
So I say, be cautious in the short-term present(that is in the tiny human life-span) and over-confident for the future.

[melissamullenfilms]

I've personally experienced two big black swan events in my life (personal black swans you might say); firstly, me and my friends were robbed at knife point while filming in a park in broad daylight but more dramatically, in 2020, I lived through a major flood/storm in France. I had fears in my mind before then, like a forest fire (as I lived in a mountanious village at the time) or being in a plane crash and yet another very rare event did happen, just not the one I had feared or considered really.

[jonathanzabolio]

Good example of a black swan for me came earlier this year when Texas got hit by a snowstorm. Texas rarely gets snow, so the energy companies weren't prepared for the snow to shut down their operations, which led to an energy shortage. So for a week, they had rolling blackouts in a lot of energy grids. On top of living in a freezing house with no power for a week, two pipes burst in my house, leading to a lot of water damage. So, almost our entire house had to have damages fixed, and we're still out of our house for those fixes today.