Mental phenomena are best understood in terms of their functions.

我们都是自己生活的作者，但我们也是别人故事中的角色。

"Words have weight, and stories have gravity."

The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions” that get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.

我不把任何事情视为理所当然。现在我只有好日子，或伟大的日子。