Inherent Randomness

 

When was the last time you got into your car and worried about whether your car would start today? Those car owners from the 1980's and 1990's could vouch for this nightmare thought. So is this by accident that the cars manufactured today are not having this problem? 

A typical car contains nearly 30000 individual parts in it. The complexity of taking so many things from so many different sources (suppliers) and turning them into a working car by itself is a miracle. Hence it is natural to think that there will always be an inherent randomness in the manufacturing process.

If Japanese car manufacturers had thought that this inherent randomness is something we have to live with, then even today the cars manufactured would be having the same starting trouble three decades ago. 

Instead Japanese treated every defect they encountered in the same way a scientist would treat an anomaly. They took every defect as an opportunity to understand what caused it and eventually fix it by understanding the root cause. 

This principle applies in most aspects of our life. For all the things which we succeed in, we attribute ourselves as the reason while attributing bad luck or lack of divine intervention for our failures. Everything that is accidental in our life, we want to attribute it to some other force elsewhere. 

The realization of what is happening to me in my life is entirely my making is one of the best gifts one could endow upon ourselves. How conscious we are in our efforts to remove the inherent randomness which we see in our everyday life, determines how much of our destiny we could control.