This means that the ability to change oneself emerges not just from stories of mastery, power, and agency, but according to stories of destiny. I will try to explain and illustrate with examples from therapy. Think of fate is the rigid, inescapable aspect of a person's life that constrains the future. It yields a sense of doom and helplessness. There is this sense of fate in many great novels.
Fate is also a concept that informs our understanding of our personal lives.
But not only fate is important. Chance is the surprising unexpected twist in time. But I think this portrayal does injustice to the duality of our thought about change. Change can also seen as a connection of the future to the past and even to fate. And as therapists, we want our clients to have a sense of control, a sense of being able to act differently.