What Is- And Isn't Written Yet.
The Story You Tell Is the Life You Live Hope lives where the past stops deciding the future. I’ve been thinking again about free will since my previous post, " Free Will Is Far From Free ." Not in the way people usually argue about it, but how it actually shows up in a day, because whatever we believe about control, or choice, or how much of this is truly “ours”… there’s something more immediate sitting underneath all of it. Something simpler. Something harder. There’s a growing body of thinking—people like Robert Sapolsky articulate it well—that what we call “free will” is far less free than we tend to believe. “By the time you’re making a decision, the reasons for it are already in place.” —Robert Sapolsky “And yet—this is where the story turns.” Our reactions, our impulses, even the thoughts that feel most personal, are shaped by biology, experience, and context long before we’re aware of them. And if you sit with that honestly, it can feel disori...
