Kevin Kelly

It's so hard to surrender the idea that unless you have a million dollars by the time you're 30, whatever it is, that you're not successful.

That's a very narrow, well-trodden niche.

And

is likely holding you back from your true greatness and your true benefit and your true authentic self and your best self.

And because it's probably going to look very different.

And so we have these role models like a Steve Jobs.

So a lot of people want to be Steve Jobs.

Wrong.

No.

First of all, he was a jerk.

Having met him a couple of times, he was a jerk.

He was a brilliant jerk, a genius jerk.

You don't want to be him.

And I think just trying to let go of and overcome the cliches, the assumed cultural biases that we have of what it is, that to me, in my opinion, has been what I see as the largest impediment to people achieving this.

Because

A lot of really authentic success may not look like that to us, to everybody else around you.

You don't own a car.

You're walking everywhere, whatever it is.

And you're saying, I don't think that's successful.

And part of it is you're educating people about that, other people, so that you have the kind of support that you need or else ignoring it.