I think that most people would be a lot happier if they saw life as a series of low probability events rather than trying to create a story of accumulation.<p>Life does not accumulate things (luck, good fortune, bad fortune, karma, any other crap that feeds the story of continuity).<p>Life is about maximizing your exposure to positive low probability events, or the probability of them, and minimizing your exposure to negative low probability events, or the probability of them.<p>You&#x27;re not working hard in work to get a reward, you&#x27;re working hard to be exposed to more chances of possible rewards.<p>You&#x27;re not exercise to avoid bad health, you&#x27;re doing it to lower the chances of a series of low probability diseases.<p>I think this is the same thing you were saying. I think realising that life is a series of low probability discreet events, not a continuum that accumulates based on past events is a real life changer.<p>All you can work on is the process of finding the right events to be exposed to - having feelings about the outcome of those events is irrational and leads to unhappiness.