Glad you mentioned the veritasium video on these. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBluLfX2F_k

Before I watched this I would default to thinking about most distributions as normal. It's really fun to think about whatever "game" you are playing - wether you are building a business or trying to win a carnival game - and consider if the results follow a normal distribution or a power law?