Your life on shuffle still plays the songs you added. Be careful what you put on the list.

Random only draws from what you put in. Shuffle feels like chance and it can only serve you songs you already chose, which makes the playlist a record of a hundred small decisions you barely noticed making. Your days work the same way. The thing that surfaces on a bad afternoon, the voice in your head, the first instinct in an argument, all of it came from what you have been feeding in.

Check what has been going into the list lately. Add one thing on purpose this week and cut one thing you would not choose to hear at random.