This is an essay that discusses the following works:

- “Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions That Matter the Most” by Steven Johnson

- “Big Decisions: Opting, Converting, Drifting” by Edna Ullmann-Margalit (2006) https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/royal-institute-of-p...

- “What You Can’t Expect When You’re Expecting” by L. A. Paul (2013)

- “Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming” by Agnes Callard

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