{"id":12885,"date":"2026-04-30T22:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/the-wildest-bet-is-the-winning-bet-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T22:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:11:15","slug":"the-wildest-bet-is-the-winning-bet-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/the-wildest-bet-is-the-winning-bet-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"posts\">\n<h2\/>\n<h3 class=\"byline\">By Maria Popova<\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry_content\">\n<p>We place life\u2019s bets by countless calculations of probability, conscious and unconscious, only to discover over and over how short they fall of the wildest reaches of the possible, which always includes but exceeds the probable. It helps to remember that we ourselves are children of improbability, that everything we treasure exists not because it had to, not because it was likely or necessary, but because the universe took a gamble against the staggering odds otherwise. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&quot;The Wildest Bet Is the Winning Bet&quot; by Maria Popova\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/inKW8Kk4-Hk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>THE WILDEST BET IS THE WINNING BET<\/strong><br \/><em>by Maria Popova<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You wouldn\u2019t have bet on it,<br \/>the battered rock<br \/>orbiting a star<br \/>from the discount bin<br \/>of the universe,<br \/>wouldn\u2019t have guessed<br \/>that it would bloom<br \/>mitochondria and music,<br \/>that it would mushroom<br \/>mountains and minds,<\/p>\n<p>and the hummingbird wing<br \/>whirring a hundred times faster<br \/>than your eye can blink,<\/p>\n<p>and your eye that took<br \/>five hundred million years<br \/>from trilobite to telescope,<\/p>\n<p>and the unhurried orange lichen<br \/>growing on the black boulder<br \/>two hundred times more slowly<br \/>than the tectonic plates beneath<br \/>are drifting apart<\/p>\n<p>and the marbled orca<br \/>carrying her dead calf<br \/>down the entire edge<br \/>of the continent,<br \/>carrying the weight<br \/>of consciousness<\/p>\n<p>and consciousness<br \/>how it windows<br \/>this tenement<br \/>of breath and bone<br \/>with wonder,<br \/>how it hovers over everything,<br \/>gigantic and unnecessary,<br \/>like music,<br \/>like love.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hop.clickbank.net\/?affiliate=infohatch&amp;vendor=J1R2C\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10614 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png\" alt=\"Profit Gen\" width=\"400\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px.png 400w, http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/profit-gen400px-300x163.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Maria Popova We place life\u2019s bets by countless calculations of probability, conscious and unconscious, only to discover over and over how short they fall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-purpose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}