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The old saw is that "you are the designer of your own life", and if you are simply proactive, things will happen for you. In actuality, there really is no difference: either you are moving or the world is moving around you. You may have made a concerted effort to move, but everything else may have moved as well.

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"Over the centuries, scientific thinking has led us to discard the notion of a fixed, unalterable world for the notion of a world in movement. We have come to accept atomic transmutation, biological evolution, psychological and social change. Yet, in our visual habits, in our specific instances of observing or imagining, we still primarily see isolated entities." Kepes, Gyorgy. The New Landscape: In Art and Science. Chicago: Paul Theobald, 1956. Print. 

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10/2024:

"Luck comes in three main flavours. Philosophers have identified “circumstantial luck”, meaning being in the right place at the right time, or the wrong place at the wrong time – such as Stephen’s family taking that particular flight. Then there’s “resultant or outcome luck”, where in a particular situation some people have good and some have bad outcomes due to factors beyond their control. Stephen had the good resultant luck of surviving." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/oct/07/the-big-idea-should-we-be-thinking-about-luck-differently