1.2. Follow the Chains Backwards

When observing any facet of your life, try to follow the causal chains backward.

This practice can dig into something as simple as the 'why' of what you had for dinner last night or your entire existence.

Let's examine the latter with an illustration. 

Your parents both lived complex lives, interacting with and being attracted to hundreds of humans along their way. Eventually, they met. In one very pivotal moment of their togetherness, your entire existence was conceived. (Causalistic elements of birth are further explored in Section 2.5) But is this where it all started? What about all the innumerable links that brought your parents together? And what about their parents? What about the 8,000 couples of your ancestors that had to copulate around 400 years ago leading to the generational amalgamation of your existence now?

You reading this sentence here is more improbable than can be comprehended.