> Where you are in life is the sum of a million choices you made. Surely one's starting conditions, all of which predate conscious choice, have some impact on

> Where you are in life is the sum of a million choices you made. Surely one's starting conditions, all of which predate conscious choice, have some impact on where one finds themselves in life. I'm approaching my 60's and have made some good decisions (and some not-so-good ones, too) but where I find myself today is the result of those decisions overlaid on a foundation of where my family of origin positioned me. Not necessarily in financial terms, but in terms of habits of mind that enabled good decisions in the first place. So I'm happy to celebrate my perspicacity and where it has taken me, but how far along I started on the curve, as with all of us? - that's pure luck.