Most people don't realise that passivity - or helplessness - is a default response to repeated failure you can't do anything about. You have to actively train your mind to learn that you have control. Autonomy becomes the skill to cultivate before any other lofty goal is pursued. This requires small wins on the board initially, in order to develop what amounts to a habit of agency.
You can have lofty goals, sure. But if you don't break them down into small enough pieces, you'll dig the hole you're in deeper.
Perhaps I erred by not elaborating on comment about Elon Musk, but it also appears you are WAY OFF the mark on your assumption.
It is one thing to 'make mistakes'.
It is another to ignore advise and critique from project engineers, associates, friends, independent (unaffiliated) engineers, and experienved car manufacturers...because you believe your intellect surpasses the combined intelligence and expertise of innumerable individuals denoting the contrary.
And I want my protractor and kindergarden truck drawing back.
Actually, the point I was about to pass across is:
Those in the rooms that gave advice or critique for the project didn’t see the delusional goal, but that didn’t stop Elon, and he finally brought it to life with the right team.
This might just have been a stepping stone to his larger, more ambitious goal.
I genuinely love this idea, but when someone is in such a mental rut, you can’t just convince yourself you can do extraordinary things. When someone has tried and failed so many times they fall into a mental state of realism. That’s the most dangerous state to be in. They settle, stop chasing. They used to care, they used to seek thrill and be passionate. But nothing worked out. Life chewed them up and spit them out one too many times and now they’ve surrendered to its unfairness. Watching others succeed who barely tried at all. All the while watching from the sidelines knowing they did everything they could and still got nothing from their efforts. What then?
Great comment Zeke. Love the Z name and this is another Z coming at you. I 100% get what you put down here, feel it in my bones level. Tried and failed way too many times with a couple of successes here n there. Am I where I want to be? No. Do I feel like you do? Yes. What are the facts we have to realize? Really there’s 1. Time. How much time do you have left before you’re too old, too incapable, too tired? Me. I’m 58. I figure I have 15 more years to settle the score I carry. I’ve nailed health, friends, relationships yet that financial piece is always illusory or is it? I always say, “comparison is the thief of joy.” There are so many examples of people who never gave up. People who came into their wealth at 70-80 etc. KFC founder Harlan Sanders. What a story!! Pick something and per Dan’s post, set an audacious goal and get back in the game. I’m doing the same. As Byron said. “The mind is its own special place, it can make a heaven of hell or a hell if heaven.” You’ve got this Zeke. 👊🏼 Zamon
Wow thank you for this, I have a deep respect for people older than me and with more experience. I’m 25 so I’ve got my whole life ahead of me, and somehow it can feel like I’ve done so much. It’s still so early. Thank you for the reset in perspective! Best of luck on your journey as well!
The Byron quote. "The mind is its own special place." That's a good place to land. The mechanism underneath that quote is that the mind can hold two models at once. The model of what is and the model of what could be. Delusion might be the refusal to collapse the second one into the first. When the two models fight, which one usually wins in your day to day?
Incredibly good question. Looking forward to an answer. I think this is a good example of where I am, and a couple friends.
People who have hustled & strived (& done right by others), only for life to say 'not for you, but watch everyone around you have it/enjoy it'.
Infuriating & unfair. So if life works like this, why bother caring & striving & hoping, the efforts begin to feel pointless.
Although I know inside me, I am meant for more & better, its just hard to believe when life keeps throwing curve balls creating more financial &/or emotional stress & overall exhaustion.
Yes life feels very unfair at times and I struggle not to be negative. Like the gentleman above said I believe time is a big factor. I’m still young and I know I have a lot more ahead of me
Zeke, I am 58 and have lived most of my life in the state you're describing. I spent years searching myself and my life for whatever was mysteriously wrong with me that I could not succeed. Eventually I figured out that the problem was never me. It's that I was surrounded by people who were, consciously and unconsciously, extracting my energy and/or outright sabotaging me. I've spent this year dissolving relationships that were eating my life. I am now on disability from a job that extracted so much I have to be on disability, and I am using the time to dedicate to building an online business that will fully replace my income by the time I'm supposed to go back to work. I'm just one monk-mode season away from freedom, and I've done it in less than a year.
So, all that is to say, if your life feels like a stack of failures look long and hard at your relationships. Who benefitted from those failures? Who benefits from you never reaching your goals? Is there anyone around you whose comfort would be disrupted if you reorganized your life away from them and toward your own success? These are people who need to be put at a distance if not rooted out altogether. It's hard to do but if you don't, they will never let you succeed.
You named something most people skip over. The mental state of realism after repeated failure is not laziness. It's a protective response. I wonder if the mechanism underneath is learned helplessness. The brain stops predicting reward from effort. That's not a character flaw. It's a system that adapted to a hostile environment. When you look back at the failures, was there a point where you stopped expecting anything to work, and did that happen before or after the circumstances actually stopped changing?
'All the while watching from the sidelines knowing they did everything they could and still got nothing from their efforts.
What then?'
IF an individual did indeed 'tried everything', to the extent that time and resources (and health?) are no longer at their disposal...to only see failure...acceptance....and knowing they 'gave it their all' should suffice to render peace....peace that others whom cared not to apply themselves AND lived in squalor shall never know.
“The goal is a filter that decides what your brain sees as important and what it ignores” is the part that really stayed with me. I think there is something powerful in recognizing that we can be incredibly productive while still moving toward a life we never consciously chose. Sometimes the most difficult part is not working harder, but admitting that the goal underneath all that effort may have been inherited from family, culture, fear, or some old idea of what a respectable life was supposed to look like. I also liked your point about a big goal forcing you to question what actually deserves your attention. Maybe the useful part of being a little “delusional” is not believing effort guarantees an impossible outcome, but allowing yourself to want something large enough that your current assumptions stop being the boundaries of the conversation. That shift from “What can I realistically do from here?” to “What would have to change for this to become possible?” can reveal an entirely different path.
You added obsession to the drivers list. I think you're right. Obsession is what happens when the goal stops feeling like a choice. The part underneath that I keep circling is this. If the goal is inherited, obsession never arrives. You can be disciplined without being obsessed. The system knows the difference even when the mind doesn't. When you look at the goals you're currently pursuing, which ones feel like they chose you back?
That is such a good question. I think writing is the clearest one for me. It does not feel like something I selected because it seemed impressive, practical, or like the next logical achievement. I keep returning to it even when there is no immediate reward, even when nobody is asking me to, even when it would be easier to put my attention somewhere else. It feels less like a goal I am forcing myself toward and more like something that keeps pulling me back into alignment with myself. I think you are right that the system knows the difference. With inherited goals, I can usually manufacture discipline for a while. With the ones that feel like they chose me back, the energy is completely different. I still have to work, but I do not have to keep convincing myself that I want the destination.
The line that stays with me is I still have to work, but I do not have to keep convincing myself. That feels like the actual test.
Inherited goals are exhausting in a specific way. The work is not the drain. The re convincing is. You have to keep selling yourself on the destination every morning. Chosen ones do not need the sales pitch. You just show up.
I am still learning to notice that difference before I have spent months on the wrong goal. Does it come early for you now, or only in hindsight?
I think I notice it earlier now, but not always immediately. Writing is the clearest example because I do not have to manufacture the desire for it. Even when I am tired or frustrated, the work itself still feels like mine. With other goals, I usually notice the difference when I start spending more energy trying to convince myself that I should want the outcome than actually moving toward it. That is probably the signal I trust most now. If I keep needing a new productivity system, a new reason, or a new version of the sales pitch just to stay attached to the destination, I try to get curious about whether the goal is actually mine. I still think hindsight teaches me plenty, but I am getting better at catching the re-convincing while it is happening instead of months later.
Sharp one, Dani. If a goal isn't self-chosen, then we tend to pursue and spend our lives being in productive in that which we picked up from society. That's why many a person lives life and is productive in a field, but ends up figuring out that he lacks a sense of fulfillment.
The delusional nature of the goal is meant to push the mind towards achieving something big and fixating it upon one path so it doesn't deviate and lose focus.
Yes, exactly. I think that is the distinction that matters most. A person can be incredibly disciplined, productive, and even successful while still building a life around goals they never consciously chose. From the outside it can look like achievement, but internally there is this strange absence of meaning because the destination was inherited rather than desired. I also like what you said about the “delusional” goal narrowing the mind toward one path. Once the goal is actually yours, that kind of fixation can become powerful because you are no longer spending energy trying to satisfy a definition of success that came from somewhere else. The hard part is getting honest enough with ourselves to know which goals are truly ours in the first place.
Thank you for always reading — I'm glad it's been useful.
You're right — setting goals effectively leverages the brain's structure. What appears in your field of vision and what doesn't comes down to the brain's settings. And it's the actions that follow from those perspective shifts that ultimately bring results.
This: "Whether you actually hit the goal or not is irrelevant because you will at least land near the goal, making progress you never thought possible before." hits hard and I've recently felt it.
I wanted 500 connections on LinkedIn by the end of August and I was at 334 in the beginning of August. At the end I managed to get 400, so not 500.
But without my little delusional goal, I wouldn't have commented so much on others posts and posted consistently at least 3-4 times a week or had any virtual coffee chats and gotten into interesting conversations! So I'm definitely grateful for that delusional goal. Since I'm early in my career and not selling anything on LI - obviously growth is way slower. But I hope to grow my audience little by little, same for Substack.
So that's why I totally understand how a delusional goal can help you push through and find as many ways to make it happen. Like I've noticed that if I took time to leave a thoughtful message on someone's post - and then clicked connect they were way more likely to accept! (Most of the people I tested this theory did) And it also sparked lovely conservations.
Thank you for this post! Very inspiring and motivating as usual!
Other people who make you feel slightly less delusional, can left you up with their belief in you, to the point where you might need a more delusional goal!
1. Die Worte von Elon sind leider nur Rauch. Er hatte ganz andere Start Bedingungen, da ist nichts mit einem normalen Menschen zu vergleichen. 2. Ziele sind wichtig, aber meist reicht es nicht aus erfolgreich zu werden.
I’ve been thinking a lot about goals, identity, and such.
Goals are only useful so far as they help to frame the problem, desired solution, and processes to be built.
For too long I thought a goal alone could help motivate me. Without the proper framing, they can be discouraging. With the proper framing (like Dan is talking about) they can be a channel via which to focus your energy.
Spot on. I ran into this post right as I transitioned into making video games after years as a developer, simply because I felt this lingering itch and had no idea what it was. I really wish I'd read this earlier.
I always tell my basketball players that Kobe would be outwardly confident but inwardly arrogant. Arrogant in that he believed, rightfully or not, that he could achieve anything better than anyone, whether it was true or aspirational, no matter how delusional it was. And confidently, so that he could inspire his teammates to feel the same way.
Thank you. This is a very interesting wake up call.
Having lived the war experience very early in my life, I understood that every day is a victory.
The passion of creating abruptly entered my life under the bombs and the smell of death.
Perseverance completed the scenery.
If I may add one thing, don’t let the tyranny of rationality control your choices. Stay foolish and stay hungry as Jobs quoted at a graduation ceremony.
Success often requires doing things that look completely delusional to everyone else.
Believing it’s possible before there’s any evidence is part of the game. The crazy idea, the BIG audacious goal, the decision to back yourself when nobody else can see it yet, that’s often where the breakthrough begins.
You have to be willing to act on a possibility before it becomes a probability. That’s where the magic, and the risk lives. DELUSIONAL POSSIBILTY for the WIN!
This hit's hard. Thank you for sharing this great letter.
Here's another angle nobody's talking about…
For most B2B founders, the delusion isn't about the outcome. It's about the belief. Most founders write newsletters that say "here's how to do x." The delusional version says "the way your category does x is wrong, and here's the proof." That's a belief, not a goal. And beliefs are what buyers actually subscribe to. Set the impossible number if it helps. But the thing that rewires your attention is taking a position nobody asked you to take.
Sobering article, but thank you for writing such a thoughtful piece, to remove us from our business and towards making the change necessary to actually do something useful in life.
Most people don't realise that passivity - or helplessness - is a default response to repeated failure you can't do anything about. You have to actively train your mind to learn that you have control. Autonomy becomes the skill to cultivate before any other lofty goal is pursued. This requires small wins on the board initially, in order to develop what amounts to a habit of agency.
You can have lofty goals, sure. But if you don't break them down into small enough pieces, you'll dig the hole you're in deeper.
'The most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.
– Elon Musk'
Quoting 'genius' Elon Musk....after the Cyber Truck....really?
The contradiction is....amusing.
Only people who do nothing never make mistakes.
Perhaps I erred by not elaborating on comment about Elon Musk, but it also appears you are WAY OFF the mark on your assumption.
It is one thing to 'make mistakes'.
It is another to ignore advise and critique from project engineers, associates, friends, independent (unaffiliated) engineers, and experienved car manufacturers...because you believe your intellect surpasses the combined intelligence and expertise of innumerable individuals denoting the contrary.
And I want my protractor and kindergarden truck drawing back.
The cybertruck is just a delusional goal. Proves Dans thesis perfectly
Thank you, Domenico.
Actually, the point I was about to pass across is:
Those in the rooms that gave advice or critique for the project didn’t see the delusional goal, but that didn’t stop Elon, and he finally brought it to life with the right team.
This might just have been a stepping stone to his larger, more ambitious goal.
I genuinely love this idea, but when someone is in such a mental rut, you can’t just convince yourself you can do extraordinary things. When someone has tried and failed so many times they fall into a mental state of realism. That’s the most dangerous state to be in. They settle, stop chasing. They used to care, they used to seek thrill and be passionate. But nothing worked out. Life chewed them up and spit them out one too many times and now they’ve surrendered to its unfairness. Watching others succeed who barely tried at all. All the while watching from the sidelines knowing they did everything they could and still got nothing from their efforts. What then?
Great comment Zeke. Love the Z name and this is another Z coming at you. I 100% get what you put down here, feel it in my bones level. Tried and failed way too many times with a couple of successes here n there. Am I where I want to be? No. Do I feel like you do? Yes. What are the facts we have to realize? Really there’s 1. Time. How much time do you have left before you’re too old, too incapable, too tired? Me. I’m 58. I figure I have 15 more years to settle the score I carry. I’ve nailed health, friends, relationships yet that financial piece is always illusory or is it? I always say, “comparison is the thief of joy.” There are so many examples of people who never gave up. People who came into their wealth at 70-80 etc. KFC founder Harlan Sanders. What a story!! Pick something and per Dan’s post, set an audacious goal and get back in the game. I’m doing the same. As Byron said. “The mind is its own special place, it can make a heaven of hell or a hell if heaven.” You’ve got this Zeke. 👊🏼 Zamon
Wow thank you for this, I have a deep respect for people older than me and with more experience. I’m 25 so I’ve got my whole life ahead of me, and somehow it can feel like I’ve done so much. It’s still so early. Thank you for the reset in perspective! Best of luck on your journey as well!
The Byron quote. "The mind is its own special place." That's a good place to land. The mechanism underneath that quote is that the mind can hold two models at once. The model of what is and the model of what could be. Delusion might be the refusal to collapse the second one into the first. When the two models fight, which one usually wins in your day to day?
Incredibly good question. Looking forward to an answer. I think this is a good example of where I am, and a couple friends.
People who have hustled & strived (& done right by others), only for life to say 'not for you, but watch everyone around you have it/enjoy it'.
Infuriating & unfair. So if life works like this, why bother caring & striving & hoping, the efforts begin to feel pointless.
Although I know inside me, I am meant for more & better, its just hard to believe when life keeps throwing curve balls creating more financial &/or emotional stress & overall exhaustion.
Yes life feels very unfair at times and I struggle not to be negative. Like the gentleman above said I believe time is a big factor. I’m still young and I know I have a lot more ahead of me
Zeke, I am 58 and have lived most of my life in the state you're describing. I spent years searching myself and my life for whatever was mysteriously wrong with me that I could not succeed. Eventually I figured out that the problem was never me. It's that I was surrounded by people who were, consciously and unconsciously, extracting my energy and/or outright sabotaging me. I've spent this year dissolving relationships that were eating my life. I am now on disability from a job that extracted so much I have to be on disability, and I am using the time to dedicate to building an online business that will fully replace my income by the time I'm supposed to go back to work. I'm just one monk-mode season away from freedom, and I've done it in less than a year.
So, all that is to say, if your life feels like a stack of failures look long and hard at your relationships. Who benefitted from those failures? Who benefits from you never reaching your goals? Is there anyone around you whose comfort would be disrupted if you reorganized your life away from them and toward your own success? These are people who need to be put at a distance if not rooted out altogether. It's hard to do but if you don't, they will never let you succeed.
You really can do it! Don't give up! 🤘🏻
Thank you for sharing that! That’s a huge insight honestly
that's the point ! Good question !
You named something most people skip over. The mental state of realism after repeated failure is not laziness. It's a protective response. I wonder if the mechanism underneath is learned helplessness. The brain stops predicting reward from effort. That's not a character flaw. It's a system that adapted to a hostile environment. When you look back at the failures, was there a point where you stopped expecting anything to work, and did that happen before or after the circumstances actually stopped changing?
'All the while watching from the sidelines knowing they did everything they could and still got nothing from their efforts.
What then?'
IF an individual did indeed 'tried everything', to the extent that time and resources (and health?) are no longer at their disposal...to only see failure...acceptance....and knowing they 'gave it their all' should suffice to render peace....peace that others whom cared not to apply themselves AND lived in squalor shall never know.
In time we learn to value things so much differently than what we used to think was important
Indeed, indeed.
Thank you, that’s a well articulated and insightsfull post.
In my humble opinion, I think obsession ought to be included among the "5 intrinsic drivers."
Absolutely, obsession is a thread that's always present underneath.
“The goal is a filter that decides what your brain sees as important and what it ignores” is the part that really stayed with me. I think there is something powerful in recognizing that we can be incredibly productive while still moving toward a life we never consciously chose. Sometimes the most difficult part is not working harder, but admitting that the goal underneath all that effort may have been inherited from family, culture, fear, or some old idea of what a respectable life was supposed to look like. I also liked your point about a big goal forcing you to question what actually deserves your attention. Maybe the useful part of being a little “delusional” is not believing effort guarantees an impossible outcome, but allowing yourself to want something large enough that your current assumptions stop being the boundaries of the conversation. That shift from “What can I realistically do from here?” to “What would have to change for this to become possible?” can reveal an entirely different path.
You added obsession to the drivers list. I think you're right. Obsession is what happens when the goal stops feeling like a choice. The part underneath that I keep circling is this. If the goal is inherited, obsession never arrives. You can be disciplined without being obsessed. The system knows the difference even when the mind doesn't. When you look at the goals you're currently pursuing, which ones feel like they chose you back?
That is such a good question. I think writing is the clearest one for me. It does not feel like something I selected because it seemed impressive, practical, or like the next logical achievement. I keep returning to it even when there is no immediate reward, even when nobody is asking me to, even when it would be easier to put my attention somewhere else. It feels less like a goal I am forcing myself toward and more like something that keeps pulling me back into alignment with myself. I think you are right that the system knows the difference. With inherited goals, I can usually manufacture discipline for a while. With the ones that feel like they chose me back, the energy is completely different. I still have to work, but I do not have to keep convincing myself that I want the destination.
The line that stays with me is I still have to work, but I do not have to keep convincing myself. That feels like the actual test.
Inherited goals are exhausting in a specific way. The work is not the drain. The re convincing is. You have to keep selling yourself on the destination every morning. Chosen ones do not need the sales pitch. You just show up.
I am still learning to notice that difference before I have spent months on the wrong goal. Does it come early for you now, or only in hindsight?
I think I notice it earlier now, but not always immediately. Writing is the clearest example because I do not have to manufacture the desire for it. Even when I am tired or frustrated, the work itself still feels like mine. With other goals, I usually notice the difference when I start spending more energy trying to convince myself that I should want the outcome than actually moving toward it. That is probably the signal I trust most now. If I keep needing a new productivity system, a new reason, or a new version of the sales pitch just to stay attached to the destination, I try to get curious about whether the goal is actually mine. I still think hindsight teaches me plenty, but I am getting better at catching the re-convincing while it is happening instead of months later.
Sharp one, Dani. If a goal isn't self-chosen, then we tend to pursue and spend our lives being in productive in that which we picked up from society. That's why many a person lives life and is productive in a field, but ends up figuring out that he lacks a sense of fulfillment.
The delusional nature of the goal is meant to push the mind towards achieving something big and fixating it upon one path so it doesn't deviate and lose focus.
Yes, exactly. I think that is the distinction that matters most. A person can be incredibly disciplined, productive, and even successful while still building a life around goals they never consciously chose. From the outside it can look like achievement, but internally there is this strange absence of meaning because the destination was inherited rather than desired. I also like what you said about the “delusional” goal narrowing the mind toward one path. Once the goal is actually yours, that kind of fixation can become powerful because you are no longer spending energy trying to satisfy a definition of success that came from somewhere else. The hard part is getting honest enough with ourselves to know which goals are truly ours in the first place.
Thank you for always reading — I'm glad it's been useful.
You're right — setting goals effectively leverages the brain's structure. What appears in your field of vision and what doesn't comes down to the brain's settings. And it's the actions that follow from those perspective shifts that ultimately bring results.
This: "Whether you actually hit the goal or not is irrelevant because you will at least land near the goal, making progress you never thought possible before." hits hard and I've recently felt it.
I wanted 500 connections on LinkedIn by the end of August and I was at 334 in the beginning of August. At the end I managed to get 400, so not 500.
But without my little delusional goal, I wouldn't have commented so much on others posts and posted consistently at least 3-4 times a week or had any virtual coffee chats and gotten into interesting conversations! So I'm definitely grateful for that delusional goal. Since I'm early in my career and not selling anything on LI - obviously growth is way slower. But I hope to grow my audience little by little, same for Substack.
So that's why I totally understand how a delusional goal can help you push through and find as many ways to make it happen. Like I've noticed that if I took time to leave a thoughtful message on someone's post - and then clicked connect they were way more likely to accept! (Most of the people I tested this theory did) And it also sparked lovely conservations.
Thank you for this post! Very inspiring and motivating as usual!
Delusion feels like the word of 2026! BUT to what you wrote, do you know about the attribution bias?
It's a fascinating cognitive bias.
Successful people tend to give pep talks about how they were successful because of their own strategy, wit and vision.
Whereas the unsuccessful blame the environment and luck.
None of them is right.
The truth is blended.
So you might as well dream big and surround yourself with others that do!
Love this frame. The tribe is so important.
Other people who make you feel slightly less delusional, can left you up with their belief in you, to the point where you might need a more delusional goal!
1. Die Worte von Elon sind leider nur Rauch. Er hatte ganz andere Start Bedingungen, da ist nichts mit einem normalen Menschen zu vergleichen. 2. Ziele sind wichtig, aber meist reicht es nicht aus erfolgreich zu werden.
I’ve been thinking a lot about goals, identity, and such.
Goals are only useful so far as they help to frame the problem, desired solution, and processes to be built.
For too long I thought a goal alone could help motivate me. Without the proper framing, they can be discouraging. With the proper framing (like Dan is talking about) they can be a channel via which to focus your energy.
Absolutely.. momentum is the fuel.
Spot on. I ran into this post right as I transitioned into making video games after years as a developer, simply because I felt this lingering itch and had no idea what it was. I really wish I'd read this earlier.
You read it in time.. there's never late nor early.. all the best for your project Rene
I always tell my basketball players that Kobe would be outwardly confident but inwardly arrogant. Arrogant in that he believed, rightfully or not, that he could achieve anything better than anyone, whether it was true or aspirational, no matter how delusional it was. And confidently, so that he could inspire his teammates to feel the same way.
Thank you. This is a very interesting wake up call.
Having lived the war experience very early in my life, I understood that every day is a victory.
The passion of creating abruptly entered my life under the bombs and the smell of death.
Perseverance completed the scenery.
If I may add one thing, don’t let the tyranny of rationality control your choices. Stay foolish and stay hungry as Jobs quoted at a graduation ceremony.
Success often requires doing things that look completely delusional to everyone else.
Believing it’s possible before there’s any evidence is part of the game. The crazy idea, the BIG audacious goal, the decision to back yourself when nobody else can see it yet, that’s often where the breakthrough begins.
You have to be willing to act on a possibility before it becomes a probability. That’s where the magic, and the risk lives. DELUSIONAL POSSIBILTY for the WIN!
Wow.. wonderful articulation Melissa
This hit's hard. Thank you for sharing this great letter.
Here's another angle nobody's talking about…
For most B2B founders, the delusion isn't about the outcome. It's about the belief. Most founders write newsletters that say "here's how to do x." The delusional version says "the way your category does x is wrong, and here's the proof." That's a belief, not a goal. And beliefs are what buyers actually subscribe to. Set the impossible number if it helps. But the thing that rewires your attention is taking a position nobody asked you to take.
Charles F. Haanel - the Master Key System.
Sobering article, but thank you for writing such a thoughtful piece, to remove us from our business and towards making the change necessary to actually do something useful in life.