I’m struggling to understand fully how “shaping one’s reality based on the decisions one makes”, “struggling to understand reality due to its ever changing nature” and “reality is shaped by perception, not by its true nature” are statements that are interconnected, and yet I can see they are all but one and the same thing. At the end of the day, the philosophy tries to put forward a way of life by which we are able to accept the outcomes of our decisions as part of the inner workings of an ever changing system of which we can only see but a few moving pieces. Not sure the writer wove the argument in a coherent way, as he starts discussing perception and the nature of reality through the butterfly parable and then jumps into decision making-shaping reality according to the Tao.