Thomas Nagel's Determinism Or Free Will?

Have you ever wondered what exactly is shaping your path and the decisions you make through your life? What ultimately controls our destiny and the decisions made in each of our lives? Some philosophers believe it’s free will others believe its determinism, but most agree that these two beliefs are incompatible and cannot occur together. I believe that free will and determinism happen together and that’s what makes us feel as if we are choosing to do things freely throughout our lives. Thomas Nagel defined determinism as “the sum total of a person’s experiences, desires, and knowledge, his hereditary constitution, the social circumstances, and the nature of the choice facing him, together with other factors that we may not know about combine to make a particular action in the circumstances inevitable.” This basically states that all events are caused by past events and nothing other than what does transpires could transpire. For example, you decide to have cheerios for breakfast. You almost pulled bacon and eggs out of the fridge to prepare that, but changed your mind to cheerios. You think you changed your mind, but according to determinism your choice was already made to have cheerios. Maybe it was that you have high cholesterol or you were running late to work, whatever reason it may be you were never going to have bacon and eggs because that wasn’t really your choice to make in the first place. Free will takes the approach on the opposite spectrum in that everything that happens in life is your decision.
W.T Stace stated that the problem that often arises with this argument is “incorrectly defining free will as some sort of indeterminism.” Free will should instead be thought of as acts that are caused by the mental state of the person, acts not freely done should be thought of as acts that were caused by conditions to not related to that