I think the old maxim “success if where preparation meats opportunity” is very true. You cannot usually control for the “opportunity” side but without preparation you’ll definitely miss a lot of opportunities.

Sure you can’t predict war, but its hardly ever something that happens overnight - like the brewing conflict in Ukraine has been brewing for decades and you can always try to move somewhere more stable.

We can’t predict us or our spouse having accidents but we can strive to be healthy.

Most of the “things outside our control” we can attempt to mitigate or plan to avoid. And sure sometimes shit happens and you have to deal with it, but thats not a healthy outlook I think, you should plan for the future, what if nothing earth shattering happens?

And you can do things to mitigate the risk and the amounts of bad outcomes - thats also planing, we’re not just animals after all - running away from pain and towards pleasure, we can think about the future, and I in my estimate this article just encourages us to do so.