The modern world's obsession with perfection and results has led to the underappreciation of human error, which is essential to authentic beauty and connection.

“What makes people beautiful is not that we get everything right. It's that we get many things wrong. And I think in the modern world we live in, we forget that.”

Young people are increasingly growing up without the long-term perspective necessary to avoid criminal lifestyles and navigate a successful future.

“my sense is we've become very short-termist at least we've allowed our children to grow up with a sense of being very shortterm IST now if I put that in the starkest terms um you don't see many gang members in their 40s 50s 60s and 70s and you laugh because it is self-evident that you don't but what”

The vast majority of people will not change their lives despite the availability of new tools because they lack the necessary self-direction.

“But the reality is the vast majority of people will not uh they won't be self-directed. They will be yanked around in the current whatever way that's going.”