Book Group Meeting - Saturday September 13 - Free Thinkers - Jefferson Humanists

Join FROG, the Free thinkers Reading Opportunity Group, for the Saturday September 13 book group meeting from 2-3:30 PM.

In September we'll be discussing The Random Factor: How Chance and Luck Profoundly Shape our Lives and the World Around Us by Mark Robert Rank.

Adapted from Goodreads:
Each of us has been profoundly touched by randomness. Chance is shown to play a crucial role in shaping outcomes across history, throughout the natural world, and in our everyday lives. In The Random Factor, Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, interviews, and extensive research to explain how luck and chance play out, and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies.
The Random Factor traverses luck from macro to micro, from events like the Cuban Missile Crisis to our personal encounters and relationships. From his perspective as a scholar of poverty, Rank also delves into the class and race dynamics of chance, emphasizing the stark disparities it brings to light. Rank draws from a wealth of evidence, interviews, and extensive research to explain how luck and chance play out, and reveals how we can use these lessons to guide our personal lives and public policies.

Location: We meet in the Mills Building. The Mills Building is a separate building behind the Jefferson Unitarian Church (no affiliation), at 14350 W. 32nd Ave. Enter the parking lot and head to the back left (southeast) corner of the lot. Use the walkway between the church and the Mills Bldg to enter the Mills Bldg (on your left), and walk straight down the hallway to our room.

RSVP to this Meetup or email frog@jeffersonhumanists.org.

This book group is sponsored by the Jefferson Humanists. (Find friends. Share Ideas. Do Good!) For more information about humanism see https://www.jeffersonhumanists.org. JH provides snacks, please bring your own beverage of choice to enjoy.

Upcoming Book Discussions:

Saturday October 11 - The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece by Tom Hanks

Saturday November 13 - When we Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

The entire 2025 schedule is posted on The Jefferson Humanists' website at https://www.jeffersonhumanists.org/jh-frog-book-group/.