There is a longstanding debate as to whether people have free will, defined as the capacity to make decisions independent of the external world. The existential philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre suggested that individuals were “condemned to be free,” doomed to agonize over all the choices they face in life. Other advisors have taken the opposite approach; believing in fate where events, and thereby even our choices, are all predetermined. Still others fall somewhere in the middle, believing that life is a combination of both free will and fate.

Do you feel you have free will and the freedom to choose how your life evolves? If so, are you actively choosing the direction your life takes? Or do you believe........

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