“I decide my life when I do not understand. I understand my life in living those decisions.” Alan Fox, Age 18

Success and failure in our lives is largely determined by the quality of our predictions, and each of us makes many predictions every single day, especially for the New Year which is approaching.

Most of those predictions are about relatively minor issues with short term implications such as what to eat for lunch or which movie to see. There’s not too much upside, or downside, either...