In The Matrix trilogy, Neo discovers that he is not as special as he thinks he is.

He thought he was the one; the person with infinite agency who will fix the system from outside of it.

But later he discovers that he is actually just the most recent "one," and that the system is designed to regularly produc "ones" as a pressure release valve.

That is, he is not free of the system, he is a part of it.

But once he embraced that frustrating truth, he could lean into it.

"How am I different from the ones that have come before me?"

And then once you figure that out, he could lean into that difference, and ultimately change the whole system from within.

Navigating complexity is easy. It simply requires letting go of the comforting illusion of full agency that your ego doesn't want you to let go.