We are all victims of memetic desire, and teal was just smart enough to embrace that fact. For the first 21 years of his life, i was on a path to become a trader at a bank,. not because i knew what that meant or if i would be any good at it. But my barometer of success was anchord to them. So where does that leave us? If we're all guilty of imitation, how do we navigate the bad of tying our identities and therefore our happiness, to others rather than our own intrinsic drivers and knowledge?