"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion."
And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.
Humans are predictably irrational in systematic ways.
"I am fascinated by the complexity of human relationships."
