You are not the cause of everything that happens to you, but you are responsible for how you respond to everything that happens to you. - James Clear

Emotions drive behavior. Every decision is an emotional decision at some level. Whatever your logical reasons are for taking action, you only feel compelled to act on them because of emotion. In fact, people with damage to emotional centers of the brain can list many reasons for taking action but still will not act because they do not have emotions to drive them. This is why craving comes before response. The feeling comes first, and then the behavior.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”9

Even bad luck is a source of opportunity—but only if you live each day as if that is true.