People often ask me if I believe in “fate.” Let me explain again: I believe in fate, but first you have to understand what fate is. Fate is not destiny; it’s a set of initial variables a person has at birth—family, environment, the era, resources, personality tendencies, and past experiences—together forming a high-probability pattern. These variables determine someone’s starting point and most of the possibilities in the early stages of life.

But fate is not the final outcome. Because as people grow, they are continually influenced by self-awareness, personality formation, choices, and actions. When a person starts to actively change themselves—keep learning, breaking through, and iterating, making themselves more and more different—they will gradually alter the original, fixed pattern.
So fate is the sum of all variables from the past, while luck comes from self-creation in the future.
If someone always stays the same person they were in the past, their life will most likely run along the original track; but if someone constantly reshapes themselves, becoming a new variable, they have the chance to change the probability of the future.
Fate decides your starting point; luck decides your direction.
A true strong person is not someone who has no limits from fate, but someone who, after seeing their fate clearly, begins to create their own luck. In the end, only when fate and luck combine does it become true destiny.