During my university years, I was obsessed with playing cards like "Upgrading" (a card game). Sitting in front of the computer, the cards would appear one by one from right to left, and I'd arrange them in a process of increasing entropy: two suits for trump, four of a kind, three Aces with two Kings... Amazing hand counts, extraordinary strategies, a truly thrilling game.
However, one time my internet connection froze. When I reopened the game, I suddenly realized the entire deck had already been dealt. Waiting for the countdown, I understood that once you click "start," the whole deck is already prepared; it's just that you're shown it in sequence.
Life is probably like that too. From the beginning, the entire hand of cards is already dealt. The only thing you need to do is arrange the cards, choose the order of play, and respond to card splits in the game. If you just follow the crowd, you'll probably only get a mindless, automated card-playing mode.