Focus on the Path You Have Taken Rather than the Ones You Haven’t
The only thing under our control is what we can do now — this moment.
In a scene from Avengers Infinity War, Dr. Strange watches all the possible futures to determine which possibility will make them win against Thanos. He sleeplessly tells Tony, aka Ironman, they have only one way to win the endgame.
It was one of the most powerful scenes from MCU’s Avengers movies, and the depth of it was felt until the very last scene of the Avengers Endgame.
What I found intriguing was how Dr. Strange and Tony knew they only had one chance to save the world from Thanos — one chance in 14 million 605 possibilities. That’s quite stressful knowledge, but they managed to keep their focus on the one possibility that saved the world.
If they had continued to think about all the other possibilities and all their failures, they’d have never been able to win the last fight against Thanos.
This thought became prominent after I saw a tweet from famous blogger Tim Urban. In the tweet, he talked about focusing more on things that are in our control instead of obsessing about other chances.
