When people watch a movie and say, “Man, that character was great,” we don’t have to break it down or explain it to anyone. We instinctively know what someone society admires looks and acts like. We feel it. So, the way I see it, that’s the baseline for the right to like ourselves when we look in the mirror. It is that high standard on screen but in our personal lives as the starting point: not an inch lower in quality. We have to ask ourselves if we are that kind of person,

It's really fascinating that every 10 years somebody enters their 30s and starts leading people in their twenties. They transfer to them knowledge on how to keep things going for the rest of the world. This vertical transfer of information is the substrate for increasing human intelligence. The transfer acts like a relay race where one runner hands the baton to the other, only this race is infinite. Our next steps should be to reduce the risk of a loss of transfer relay due t