The Daily Opportunity in Randomness
"The physicist Leonard Mlodinow changes how we think about the agency we
 have in shaping our own destinies. As a scientist, he works with 
principles like Brownian motion, by which Einstein helped verify the 
existence of molecules and atoms. As the child of Holocaust survivors, 
he dances with the experience we all have: that life never goes as 
planned, and yet the choices we make can matter. The course of your life
 depends on how you react to opportunities and challenges that 
randomness presents to you, he says."