Hope is not a feeling; it is a doable thing.

So what I want to argue for is not that we should give up on our ideas of success, but we should make sure that they are our own. We should focus in on our ideas, and make sure that we own them; that we are truly the authors of our own ambitions. Because it's bad enough not getting what you want, but it's even worse to have an idea of what it is you want, and find out, at the end of the journey, that it isn't, in fact, what you wanted all along.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas， and the cause of gods and daemons.

当目标是取得有意义的进步时，合作胜过竞争。

解读：这是诙谐调侃，意在缓解人们自我否定时的低落情绪，用幽默方式鼓励换个视角看自己，重拾轻松心态。