The Paradox of Control -- making meaning in life
“Evans shared something that initially sounds discouraging. The correlation between good decision-making and desired outcomes is zero.
Let that land.
How well you think through something today has no causal impact on the future. Too many variables intervene. Other people make choices. Circumstances shift. The world doesn’t cooperate.
But here’s the twist. Good decision-making, coherent living, still matters. If you ran the same experiment across a thousand parallel universes, the person making thoughtful, aligned choices would succeed more often. The odds improve. You just can’t guarantee any individual outcome.”