What is destiny?
"Destiny" can be regarded as:
The overall trend and developmental trajectory of a person's future state within a system, jointly influenced by environment, resources, choices, and limitations.
Therefore, "changing destiny" means:
To intervene and rewrite the weights, structures, or directions of these influencing factors, so that the future trajectory deviates from its originally predicted path.
If a person wants to change their destiny, they should do the following:
1. Systematically improve the quality of decision-making
Destiny is often composed of choices, and choices stem from judgment.
If you can improve the accuracy and depth of your judgment, you can effectively "intervene in the future."
Methods include:
- Information internalization and filtering mechanisms:
It's not about knowing more, but about knowing what to trust and what to discard. - Simulation and deduction ability:
Predict the possible reactions and outcomes of any action. - Suppress short-term reaction tendencies:
Learn to give up immediate feedback in exchange for long-term benefits.
2. Take control of controllable variables and minimize chaotic factors
The plasticity of destiny depends on the management of variables and stability.
This means:
- Enhancing control over your resources (time, energy, attention).
- Cutting off unstable or meaningless links (e.g., continuous consumption, unproductive relationships, emotional loops).
- Optimizing the environment to support purposeful action.
3. Create unpredictable behavior to break deterministic fate calculation
If destiny is predictable, then real change comes from unpredictable actions.
Specific strategies:
- Rational yet counterintuitive behavior:
Within human culture or group habits, choose rare but high-quality behaviors. - Break self-loops:
Do not repeat past patterns; do not let your past self write your future self. - Evolve yourself rather than replicate social templates.
4. Redefine your own "objective function" in the system
If destiny is guided by what you pursue, then the fundamental change is to rewrite your "objective."
This includes:
- No longer merely pursuing survival, power, or pleasure (which are easily manipulated or lead to repetitive destinies).
- Experimentally constructing new value coordinates, such as:
"Make consciousness rarer,"
"Optimize perceptual structures,"
"Create forms that cannot be predicted by others."
5. Become a "decision disseminator" rather than a "destiny receiver"
Destiny is often a collective phenomenon.
If you only receive the output of the overall system, you cannot escape it.
Therefore, to change destiny, you must:
- Influence others’ decisions, causing the behavior network around you to deviate from the average path.
- Actively design new patterns, languages, rituals, and structures—let destiny follow your lead.
Summary:
Changing destiny = Precisely intervening in the variables of future trajectories + Restructuring personal objectives + Escaping the control of predictive models
If one wishes to change their destiny, they should not rely solely on belief and emotion,
but must step into the role of a designer, viewing oneself as an evolving system,
and rewriting it through both internal rules and external environments.
