When i was in high school, i read candide. Did you read candide by voltaire? Let us go cultivate our garden. Was this kind of like, well, the world is complicated, and there's all this stupidity,. There's politics, and there’s almost nothing stupider than politics to me. I just find it more useful to focus on something that i can change. And maybe, like this guy, rennie davis, i'm kind of at a loss for how to change these structural thin which i agree are bigger.
Is it more important to help society or to help yourself? Does the self-improvement movement do any good for the world? And which podcast episode does Stephen cling to as proof that he’s doing something valuable?