There&#x27;s an important idea I feel is being missed. Something can be true &quot;in distribution&quot; but not true in a &quot;pathwise&quot; sense. That means, over the long run, for most people, on average x is true. But for specific individual and&#x2F;or specific  time frame it can be very untrue.<p>Point being I can say to you &quot;adopt a growth mindset&quot;, you do it, but it doesn&#x27;t work and life throws you &#x27;a curve ball&#x27; again and again. Doesn&#x27;t mean my hypothesis was wrong, and doesn&#x27;t mean you didn&#x27;t follow through properly. We can both be right in this case.<p>All it means is, we should act as if our actions&#x2F;thoughts count, but accept it as a fundamental property of the universe that they may not &#x27;bear fruit&#x27;.<p>All we can do is embrace the chaos^<p>^ as in chaotic systems