In the last post, we talked about how we are decision-making machines. Every moment, every turn, every unexpected outcome—it’s all a result of choices made before it.
But here’s the thing: decisions aren’t just isolated events. They’re patterns.
Henry David Thoreau put it best:
“A single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”
Every habit, every instinct, every default reaction—it’s just a path walked over and over again. The more we choose a thought, an action, or a belief, the deeper that path gets. And the deeper it gets, the harder it is to leave.
But here’s the part we often forget: paths can be broken.
Loki—the trickster, the god of stories—was always trapped in a loop. No matter the universe, no matter the version, failure was his fate. Every Loki was destined to lose.
Until one wasn’t.
In the Loki Season 2 finale, he did something no other version of him had done before—he broke the pattern. He rewrote his fate. He became something bigger than the story that had been written for him.
That’s the real power of understanding our own paths. They aren’t permanent. They aren’t destiny. They are just choices, stacked over time. And the moment we see them for what they are, we can change them.
A single step won’t do it. A single thought won’t rewrite the mind.
But if we walk a new path—again and again—eventually, it becomes the only road we know.
So, the question isn’t just which path are you walking?
It’s when are you going to break the old one and create something new?