Donald Hoffman

But if you're trying to become very, very rich, because you think that that's what you need to do to be worthwhile, that you can step back from and say, I'm already infinitely beyond a trillionaire.

Infinitely beyond that.

Now the question is, in this sandbox, do I want to play that game?

Do I want to be the world's richest person?

Or would I rather just grow flowers?

In other words, you have the freedom to choose whatever you want to do.

And it's not so important.

You can play the game, be sort of relaxed about it.

And so that's the ultimate thing is you're never a failure.

In fact, you're rendering this whole game right now.

You're the author, not the failure.

Yes, it can be very hard sometimes.

For example, you might have been raised in a family in which you're

Talents were not recognized.

And you were marginalized and made to feel unimportant and made to hide.

And that can be extremely difficult to break out of.

You could be brilliant, extremely talented, but convinced from your parental upbringing that you're worthless.

And it can be a horrendous, painful process

of getting out of that, because it could have even been prenatal.

And so you have this programming all through your life until you're out on your own.