"Friendly reminder that most people are fat, poor pansies and don't listen to them when they try to deter you from whatever it takes to succeed. The average person will always try to keep you average. It makes sense that if you want to be extraordinary, you will do things that an ordinary person would see as extra. We yearn for the approval of many people who don't have lives that we want. And so if they have a specific life, then it means that that is what they think is valuable. And if we don't want what they have, then why would we value their weight on our decisions? And so somehow when people state the obvious, which is that you are living your life against my preferences, we somehow feel like that needs to change. Because when we're younger and growing up, we can't leave. Yeah, you can't leave. And you do need to live your life according to your parents' preferences, your teachers' preferences, your classmates' preferences, your principals' preferences. But when you get older, you do have to break the mold and decide what mold you want. And in so doing, you will be against their preferences. And if the vast majority of people have a life that you don't want, then you're going to do things that the vast majority of people don't agree with."