Finance professor Elroy Denson says, risk means that more things can happen than will happen. Every current event, big or small, has a family tree of how events in your life happened. To understand the 2008 financial crisis, you have to understand the mortgage market and other factors which shaped it.
This is a short personal story about a fluke event 16 years ago that changed everything in my life. You probably have a similar story, and there is so much to learn about how everything can change from an event you never saw coming.