Invisibilia: Do the Patterns in Your Past Predict Your Future?

Welcome to Invisibilia Season 4! The NPR program and podcast explores the invisible forces that shape human behavior, and we here at Shots are joining in to probe the science of why we act the way we do. On paper, Shon Hopwood's life doesn't make a lot of sense, not even to him. "I don't have a great excuse as to why I did these things. And everybody always wants that," he tells me. "It closes the circle for people. But that's not really how it happened."