A leisurely life that begins with the possession of a game character

(No plot advancement, can be skipped)
So what finally emerges is that it seems that all successful people believe in feng shui, numerology and metaphysics.

"So, a person's fate in life has already been determined. What's the point of me struggling or not? It's better for me to take good care of my health and take good care of my parents." Zhang Jintao felt very emotional about his life.

Zhang Lan thought for a moment and said, "Let me tell you something."

Let's say we play a game, I find a piece of paper and write a random number, ranging from 1 to 100. I give you 8 chances to guess what the number is, and every time you say a number, I will tell you whether the number you guessed is larger or smaller than the answer.

You probably know that the best solution to this problem is to guess the number at each time within half of the currently known range. This is called bisection, and it is a required subject in high school mathematics.

You can definitely guess the number in the end, would you just guess randomly or use the binary method?

"Then we must use the binary method. This method is better than random guessing." Zhang Jintao answered without hesitation.

"why?"

“Because I understand this.”

"That's right. When your goal is to solve the problem, you will naturally adopt a more superior method, because you know that this method is most conducive to your solving the problem and thus gaining benefits. Then, when facing problems in life, we should naturally choose a better method, rather than denying the meaning of human actions because of belief in fate."

Zhang Jintao shook his head. “Stop talking nonsense. I have mastered the dichotomy, so I can use it to solve problems today. But in fact, mastering the dichotomy is a past experience in my life. It, together with many other experiences, has led to everything that happened today. If I had not listened carefully to the class, or if the game you proposed today was a little more difficult, I would not be able to solve it.”

"When faced with a problem, I will of course actively seek a solution, but this does not mean that I can decide or control anything. You do not truly understand fate. In my words, 'a person's life is already predetermined' does not mean that fate erases the significance of a person's subjective choices and efforts. Fate just gathers all these things in its palm and then draws an inevitable path. Fate is not a ruthless observer who pushes you with some supreme power. In fact, fate itself does not exist at all. It is actually the accumulation of countless events. What if you choose a better way? The choice you make is already inevitable, and even this choice itself will become a part of your fate. My brother, do you understand?"

Zhang Lan shook her head: "You realize that fate is not a great existence. But this comes from the fact that you unfold a person's life from the dimension of time and try to have a bird's eye view of it, but this is something only God can do. I don't mean that we are incapable of doing this, but that we shouldn't do this. As human beings, if we look at our own lives from this perspective, it's like a soldier in battle looking at the war he is in from the perspective of a general."

"As you said, the accumulation of experiences has made us, but it has also limited us. But this limitation is not the shackles of fate, but a part of the self. You see that countless experiences determine your present, but you fail to see that each of those so-called countless experiences is our own choice. If it is our own choices that have accumulated into countless experiences, then what you call 'experience determines everything' is not 'we decide everything ourselves'?" "You are too obsessed with taking a panoramic view of life, and you can only see a winding curve at a glance, and see that we seem to have no choice at every juncture. But you are only one person after all, and you can only exist in a section of your life. Being born here, the choices in front of you naturally increase. What to eat for breakfast, whether I should attend this class, whether to play ball or play games at noon... What really makes our many choices collapse into one, and what makes you think that 'everything is already destined' is not fate, but yourself."

Zhang Jintao frowned, pondered for a long time, and finally spoke slowly: "Brother, what you mean is that the reason why I feel that the script of my life has already been written is because I adopted the omniscient perspective of the audience and deduced the subsequent plot based on this. But in fact, as a traveler in life, I am just an actor and can only start from my own perspective. In this way, the development of the plot will depend on me. At the same time, the so-called destiny formed by the accumulation of experiences is nothing more than my own choice in the past..."

“That’s right. On our journey, it’s never the fate above us that points us in the right direction, but our own footsteps.”

It is true that some things cannot be changed by human power, and Zhang Lan has no intention of advocating that efforts should be made to change one's fate. In fact, the environment does sometimes determine many things about us, and it is an important factor that cannot be ignored.

There are indeed many things in the world that are beyond our control. This is actually normal. What is abnormal is the life attitude that believes that "fate determines everything" and denies self-choice.

In fact, humans have been arguing about the issue of free will for thousands of years. If causal determinism is true, as long as the state of the entire universe at a certain moment is determined, then the state of the universe at all times is also determined.

The future of the universe is predetermined, and we are just living in a predetermined way. Where is the free will?
Either causal determinism is true and humans do not have free will, or humans have free will and the universe does not follow causal determinism. The two are incompatible, this is "incompatibilism", and most people who have not studied philosophy are basically incompatibilists.

What about those who have studied philosophy? In fact, many philosophers hold the view of “compatibilism”, which means that the universe can be causally deterministic, and humans can also have free will, and the two can “coexist”.

The accumulation of experiences has made us, but also limited us. However, this limitation is not the shackles of fate, but a part of the self. You see that countless experiences determine your present, but you fail to see that each of those so-called countless experiences is our own choice.

If it is our own choices that pile up into countless experiences, then the saying 'experience determines everything' is also 'we ourselves determine everything', isn't it?
If a person says that his first choice was determined by the outside world, and that subsequent choices were based on the first one, then he has no free will at all.

At the same time, a person's birthplace, family background, parents' personalities, etc. are all determined by the outside world, and these things have influenced a person from the very beginning, so there is no such thing as free will.

This so-called first choice seems to have a great impact on a person, but in fact, most people will not fall into panic thinking that they have no free will just because their birth is not determined by themselves. (End of this chapter)