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[Groundhog Day] How did Phil actually break the time loop?

We might be better off as a species knowing this.
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The timeloop acted as a purgatory. It was an act of divine intervention to trap him until he learned what he was doing wrong with his life so that he could bring himself to experience heaven. It's possible that he died in the blizzard on the first day of the loop, but it might have also been an earthly miracle - he'll never really know.

Phil lived his life constantly pushing others away, trying to be aloof, above, and fake. He made himself miserable this way, crafting himself a living hell that got worse every day. On the surface, he was a cool, high-income professional, but beneath he was constantly filled with self-hate and a need to make others believe he was above them. In his purgatory, he slowly learns to escape this hell.

At first, he didn't get it, and kept to his old ways. He used his newfound abilities to goof off, to pull of tricks, to be higher than others, to try to get what he wanted by placing himself above them. Each time, it brought him only misery, and repeated suicide attempts. Then, he had a break and began to be reborn.

At first, he worked to better himself. Rather than tricking people by imagining what they wanted and faking it, he started to pick things he wanted to be good at to improve at and build himself up, giving himself some measurable progress in his life.

Next, he started to help people, even though they would never remember. At first, this was an act of attaining perfection too, little more than a challenge. Then, when he met the homeless man he couldn't save, he learned something else. Helping others wasn't about perfection, but a goal in itself. It's something he kept doing, even though it didn't matter if he did or not and even though he could never do it perfectly.

This helped him to achieve the spiritual enlightenment necessary to achieve heaven. He helps others for the sake of doing it, he works to better himself while being humble about his abilities, and learned to relax and enjoy life moment to moment. He escaped from the trap of protecting his standing and reputation, learning to act for no other reason than that he wanted to. Without having exited the timeloop, he transformed his hell into a heaven, mastering the doctrine of eternal recurrence and understanding that all of life is a series of repeating moments, good and bad, and that in each one you must choose to do what's right for no other reason than that it's right, and try to better yourself slowly and without expectation of perfection. Once he'd mastered that, the purgatory was done, and he was free to enter heaven, or the heaven of living an enlightened life.