The system works because it fools us into believing that we’re voluntarily making a decision—that our choices are actually our choices. But this is often an illusion. The system (whichever system we’re captured by) has limited our choices. We can “pick any card,” but we rarely see the entire deck. Yet we have a chance to see the system instead of merely being part of it. Every strategy depends on being conscious of the change we seek to make and the systems that can amplify or impede our progress.
