“[Right now] everybody's trying to please everyone else, and you end up with a lot of stuff that looks the same.”

Stuck in lightspeed

That is not the wail of a banshee. It is the voice of modern exasperation—of anyone, anywhere, who has had enough of hatreds, great and small, and who chooses adventure over atavism.

Tim Urban
@waitbutwhy

Insecurity makes people build an arrogance bunker to hide in, which yields stagnation and further insecurity.

Confidence yields wandering humility, which yields continual growth, which builds more confidence.

So much of life happens in vicious or virtuous cycles.