I stood in front of my classroom and gave them a speech. The topic was a classroom environment conducive to acquiring a second language. I thought it was a speech with much truth. I explained it to them, and I was determined to make our class so.
But the speech had no effect. Since then, I have become interested in free will. Did the students have free will, and why could they not change their attitude? Did the students have something like free will? Were there environmental forces that overrode their decisions?

From the perspective of the field of physics, there is no free will. However, she says to think of your life as a story not yet told. You are equipped with a thinking apparatus that you use to collect information and act on what you have learned from this. It seems that she holds an interdependent view nature of people. People do not have free will, but there are consequences to our actions. She says you should be curious about what will come out of your thinking. (They say scientists have plenty of curiousity.)
I like this. I will try to connect this to Daoism in the next post.