I find that I can often predict events with scary accuracy and that used to make me feel quite good when things went exactly as I imagined they would, it was almost like a game, how far ahead could I see. Then I realised that it worked for negative things too, if I thought something wouldn’t work out, it didn’t and that wasn’t a good feeling at all.

Eventually I realised that while you can predict a lot of things it’s the attitude that matters in the end, not the prediction. I also found that while you can imagine an overall situation and where it might lead, the details almost never end up how you imagined. It’s those details and how you deal with them in that moment that matter the most, not how things end up in the grand scheme of things.

For example you imagine that you will get rejected, you do the maths and the possibility might as well be 80%. Here is where attitude matters; do it anyway! You might indeed be rejected but for example the rejection itself will be nothing like you expect, or the events afterwards will unfold differently because while you concentrated so much on prediction, you stopped thinking about the afterwards. Whether you are right or wrong there are things to learn, opportunities to grasp and rewards to find in the little details you had no way of knowing. Or you come up to the point where the expected happens but your reaction is what will determine whether you succeed in the end or not and you can’t react to something that hasn’t happened yet.

Another words you can predict with a high degree of accuracy where a wave might be heading but you won’t know how it will happen or what you can do in its midst until you go with the flow.