What a strange view into the mind of someone who I assume is absolutely brilliant in his field. He sees the world as defying the laws of probability to oppress

What a strange view into the mind of someone who I assume is absolutely brilliant in his field. He sees the world as defying the laws of probability to oppress him but it reads the exact opposite to me. The surprising part to me is that we have created a world that so successfully coddles us. That a person who repeatedly fails to execute fairly simple tasks in an airport that is specifically designed to make everything as strait forward as possible is otherwise a very successful human. His ancestors survived warfare, hunting food in the wild, traveling across thousands of miles with only the things on their backs. Yet here he is, struggling to recover from the stress of being delayed less than a single day while participating in the miracle of flight. If his ancestors forgot their food pack at such a level of stress, or reached down towards a snake in the same we he grabbed for money in front of him, he would be dead. I agree. The universe seems to defy the laws of probability. It's not to oppress one absent minded professor. It's that the genetic ancestors of this man all managed to not get eaten by a lion in order to build a world that allows him and his family to survive while being incapable of functioning under normal levels of adversity.