Author of “The 50-Percent Theory of Life”, Steve Porter believes in the 50-percent theory. In one spring, Porter planted corn too early, and his neighbors laughed at him. Even worse, that summer, a scorching heat wave and drought came; his air conditioner died and he even lost his job. However, that brutal summer altered the corn-planting conditions just right. That winter, Porter’s crops overflowed with fat corn; on the other hand, his neighbors’ fields produced unsuccessful corn crops. The 50-percent theory just happened to be working for Porter; however, it may not be the same for someone else. A Buddhism ideology, Karma states that a person’s fate depends on what he did in the past; in other words, if one does a bad action, bad fate
