Lovely paper on the importance of gatherings as sources of fatefulness: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117 (via … ironically published in '19!)
"Social occasions are more likely than other kinds of time to house events that unexpectedly shift the trajectory of individual lives."
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I would like some more fatefulness in my life please!
I don't know how to square this with a strong sense of self-efficacy, etc: like, I don't exactly *want* to be tossed around by the winds of fate! And yet it's hard to sail a ship with just the wind from one's own lungs…
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Do you like to read philosophy? C. S. Peirce, an early American pragmatist, is wonderful in this regard. He avoids determinism by seeing life as a balance between chance and habit. His paper “The doctrine of necessity examined” could be a good place to start.
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