Katherine Boyle

It changes the way that you think about your life.

And the same thing for, I don't think every woman should have to be a mother.

If I talk to nine people or 10 people, nine out of 10 people would say, of course, these are good things, right?

These are popular things.

Mm-hmm.

But at the same time, when we didn't replace that purpose with something else, and we didn't have a way of saying, this is how society should be organized.

Yes.

And the only, the thing that we did instead was instead of, you know, serving your country is an outward focus thing.

It's focused on other people.

It's focused on someone other than you.

The same thing with being a mother.

The minute you become a mother, you stop worrying about yourself, right?

Like you don't have time to make yourself the most important thing.

Like you have to worry about your children.

So in both of those cases, those purposes, they were outwardly focused.

They were things where this is how we organize society and you care about the institution of family and the men care about the institution of their country.

But what we did instead was we turned inward.

We started focusing on our own mind.

And this is like the moment that we really start thinking about psychology, like who am I?

What is my purpose on this earth?