Doing well, you?

A veggie burger, large fries with no salt, and a small concrete mixer. Chocolate please, with peanut butter and cheesecake as the mix ins. Thanks.

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It fluctuates between INTJ and INTP, but the Myers-Briggs personality test isn't something you should rely on. There's minimal scientific evidence supporting it, just a lot of marketing. Try the Big Five instead, it's actually scientifically validated.

No, I don't.

That doesn't mean you can't change, or that you're doomed to repeat the past. I just think that everything we are and that we do is based on our biology, environment, and the interaction between those two. By "environment," I don't just mean your physical environment — it's everything around you, like the people and information you're exposed to.

I don't think there's anything in the physical world (i.e. non-supernatural) that leaves room for "free will". You live your life on a general trajectory and that trajectory only changes if your biology or environment changes.

Here's the thing: you can change your environment, which affects you, which affects your environment, and so on. It's sort of like a free will hack!

If you want to change, do something to change your environment: learn new things, try new things. Just knowing that you can change, that change needs to come from somewhere concrete, helps. You're not deficient in "will power". You're just locked into your current trajectory until something new comes into that equation, like a poorly written and unconvincing FAQ answer that tells you that you can change your environment and live a better life.

I often make myself laugh. Others? Not so much.

Yes, I frequently ask myself these questions.