Perhaps destiny can actually win?
There are lazy managers and corrupt government officials, yet there are
moral, ordinary citizens. (converse also true)
Can a correlation be disproven?
Why are intelligent people sometimes not employed, and why do some
government officials like Donald Trump simply STUPID?
Even though effort is one of the few things the self can do to improve,
still, people overestimate effort; success is mainly based on external
circumstances (less control).
Luck is also a factor; if someone is born with a destructive health
condition, even with effort, life won’t be that good.
Thus it is believed that expecting (assuming for sure) anything
significant from effort is a waste of time, just causes anxiety. In fact,
eg. jobs applicatio,n there’s a lot out of control; success and failure
are unknown from the candidate's perspective. Becoming a slave to forced
effort causes extreme harm to the simple act of being a free human. To
be clear, success itself is not a problem; it’s excess effort at the
cost of not being able to rest from forced effort.
“Only those who accept the natural flow of events will not be
concerned about life and death or anxious about praise or blame.” -> And then if attachment
to outcome is removed, being a failure is rendered completely
meaningless, as the human, and the freedom of being human, still exists.
Sure, others can still see, but isn’t the meaning of one's own life made
on their own, not by others? Because reputation is still ultimately not
up to the human, but the circumstances, and effort can only do so much,
and afterwards it destroys the mind of the excessively hustling
person!
It doesn’t mean working; it’s just about detaching from the outcome to
destroy the fear of repeated failures.