What If Everything Happens For You, Not To You?

“What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.”
– Søren Kierkegaard

Dear reader, William James, one of the founders of modern psychology, gave a lecture in 1896 titled The Will to Believe. In it, he argues that access to the evidence for whether or not certain beliefs are true depends crucially upon first adopting those beliefs without evidence - on faith.

This is true even of the Scientific Method. A chemist who is willing to spend a decade of his life exploring a hypothesis must first, to some extent, believe in it.

If beliefs are relative, why not pick the beliefs that serve you?

One of the most powerful videos I’ve ever watched

Ask yourself this: what if you believe that life happens for you, not to you?

Yours Sincerely,
Henry Chong