I met the towering intellectuals in books, not in classroom, which is natural.My family was into all that stuff, getting ahead through discipline, knowledge, and self-control.
One solution fits all is not the way to go.All these cultures are different.The right culture for the Mayo Clinic is different from the right culture at a Hollywood movie studio.You can't run all these places with a cookie-cutter solution.
What I feared most for myself at your age was not poverty, but failure.
The human soul is a labyrinth, full of twists and turns, and we are all trying to find our way out.