“Change comes from within” is a bad heuristic for self-improvement. We evolved to adapt to environmental pressures, so if you wish to develop as a person, develop your surroundings into an environment that will require you to become who you wish to be.
How you act is besides the point. We're talking descriptively, not prescriptively. In a deterministic universe, your choices come from a chain of causality that precedes your existence, so ultimately they come from the external world.
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Maybe, maybe not. We simply don't know. The universe might very well be compatiblist. There's simply too little information to say. At the very least, I'd only advise people to gain perspectives that enhance their autonomy and not diminish it as psychology has repeatedly shown...
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...this mindset to be far superior to a opposite.
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