Even when you perform the same one over and over again Press enter or click to view image in full size Photo by Ruan Richard Rodrigues on Unsplash There has always been a part of me that understood the world as something mechanical. Actions produce reactions. Inputs generate outputs. If you repeat the same process enough times, you should expect roughly similar results, allowing for randomness, of course. It is a comforting way to see things because it suggests that life, at its core, is predictable. And for a long time, that framework worked for me. If I sat down, wrote an email, and sent it, then I had done the task. Whether it succeeded or failed seemed tied to external variables: timing, opportunity, the person on the other side. The internal state – the way I felt while doing it – appeared irrelevant. The machine had been operated; the result would follow. But over the past few years, something has shifted.…