All The Different Ways Your Life Could Have Turned Out

When we imagine different lives we could have lived, we tend to think about decisions we made, and roads not taken. What is far less appreciated, Morgan Housel elaborates in this podcast episode, are random events that could have changed everything. I’m fascinated by the experiment Housel describes – and cautiously curious about trying it myself: He wrote a detailed description of the life circumstances of his 20-year-old self. He then gave that description to ChatGPT and asked it to write 50 stories of how that 20-year-old’s life would likely continue. He got 50 versions of how his life could have been, including some shocking ones.