Are you with Leibniz or Cicero?

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If one assumes 'free will' then all the choices you made were based on personal decisions that would be the same. (remember, we are discussing a redo, same conditions, same outcome.)  If there is no 'free will' then your choices were determined.  There is also the possibility that your choices were just random.  In that case, improvement would have to rely on 'luck'.

But you don't know if you would be at the same exact spot at the very same time, meet the exact same people at the exact same time. That would be indeed something like Groundhog day or fate. Just the basics of origins, time and location of birth, don't provide for that. Circumstances and decisions might still change.