“Destiny is a name often given in retrospect to choices that had dramatic consequences.”
“Black Swan has three attributes: unpredictability, consequences, retrospective explainability.”
“But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at all; often enough, the choices we make are, for better or for worse, made by default.”
“I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.”
“Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.”
“Only later-looking back through the years-do we come to realise those ordinary choices are often the critical turning point in our destiny.”