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How to Make Your Future Predictable in an Indefinite World
Can you control your future?
“You can expect the future to take a definite form or you can treat it as hazily uncertain. If you treat the future as something definite, it makes sense to understand it in advance and to work to shape it. But if you expect an indefinite future ruled by randomness, you’ll give up on trying to master it.” -Peter Thiel
Most people don’t have great exceptions for the future — both of their own and for the world.
They think whatever happens will happen and there is no other way around.
Although, what if you couldn't control what happens in the world but you could control what happens to you?
What if you could plan and shape your future as you like? What if you could make your future increasingly predictable in an indefinite world?
This article will explore a few ideas on how to do just that.
Here we go.
Expect Everything, Attach to Nothing
“Expect everything and attach to nothing.” -Carrie Campbell
In an indefinite world, you should know that failure’s an option and attach to nothing. Yet, you should also come to expect everything because the very…
