Free Will by Sam Harris. Before reading it I felt like I had free will, but I didn’t know how to articulate why. A few hours later (it’s not a long read), it w

Free Will by Sam Harris. Before reading it I felt like I had free will, but I didn’t know how to articulate why. A few hours later (it’s not a long read), it was clear to me that free will is an illusion. To summarize, we can control what we do, but we can’t control what we want to do, which is a product of our genetics and our environment —- neither of which we have much control over. This realization has eliminated all regret from my life, since it means that wishing I had made a different decision in the past is akin to wishing the laws of the universe were different.