Some of you have an inferno. And you are proud of it. I'm not asking you to put it out. I'm asking you to look at who is standing around you. Are they warming themselves at your light, or are they flinching from the heat? Are the people who helped you keep the flame alive still standing close? Or have you burned them too?

Most self-help advice is like going to a desert dweller and trying to sell them swimming lessons. It’s "motivation" without context. You can show them the most beautiful pool in the world, but if they don't see water as a necessity for their current survival, they won't learn. Conversely, if you go to a fisherman and ask him to conserve water, he’ll look at you like you’re crazy. He’s surrounded by it. He has no "need" to change his relationship with it.