Qualifying the previous post: Using probability based on predicable human behavior to see the future

Part 2

I should clarify some things from Part 1. It’s not so much that you can see into the future. It’s more looking at probabilities based on your own (or others’) tendencies given particular scenarios. Actually, it’s more difficult to predict your own future, but it should be easier. But that’s only if you know yourself.

The easiest illustration is, again, poker. You can’t predict what the dealer will turn up on the flop, but you can predict the decisions you (or others you know well) will make in certain circumstances. That’s what I mean when I say “see into the future”.

As for following a set “path”, really, there is a complexity of interactions between people and events in life that people simplify by calling it fate or a greater plan. But as I said before, what you believe has influence on the decisions you make. If you believe you have no control of things, you’ll make your decisions accordingly and might not accomplish what you could have had you believed you did have control.

I guess what you have to do is realize when an opportunity is actually there (a path set before you out of the complexity of interactions) and when there isn’t and you just want there to be one.

If the opportunity is there and you choose to follow it, then you feel in control. If you imagine there’s an opportunity when there isn’t, then you’ll see you’re not in control. If you continue to see hope for that opportunity that isn’t really there, then you are delusional.

Well, this is giving me a bit of a headache, so I’ll close with this. You can’t know everything ahead of time. Sometimes you just need to know enough before proceeding.

Continue to Part 3