I think that most people would be a lot happier if they saw life as a series of low probability events rather than trying to create a story of accumulation. Li

I think that most people would be a lot happier if they saw life as a series of low probability events rather than trying to create a story of accumulation. Life does not accumulate things (luck, good fortune, bad fortune, karma, any other crap that feeds the story of continuity). Life is about maximizing your exposure to positive low probability events, or the probability of them, and minimizing your exposure to negative low probability events, or the probability of them. You're not working hard in work to get a reward, you're working hard to be exposed to more chances of possible rewards. You're not exercise to avoid bad health, you're doing it to lower the chances of a series of low probability diseases. I think this is the same thing you were saying. I think realising that life is a series of low probability discreet events, not a continuum that accumulates based on past events is a real life changer. All you can work on is the process of finding the right events to be exposed to - having feelings about the outcome of those events is irrational and leads to unhappiness.