It's nothing that I've actually been able to rely upon. I clearly recall, during a short spell of unemployment, that after a couple of interviews with a particular place I was 100% certain - there was absolutely no doubt in my mind whatsoever - that I was going to be offered the position.
Alas, someone else got it. I was crushed, not just because I had been passed over (though that was bad enough), but because the sense of sure-ness that I had was totally and completely wrong.
I think you're both right, actually. Our thoughts do form our future, but it's nothing mystical or remotely supernatural. I think about getting soup for lunch, and my actions follow those thoughts and I have soup for lunch.
Then again, maybe on the way to get my soup I bump into a friend and she says, "Let's go get a burger."
There is room in my world for happenstance and chaos, and I wouldn't have it any other way. Then I get to have a burger with a very attractive friend!
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