Michael Rubenfeld - Thought #3 - Greatness

I'm spending a lot of time and struggling with my relationship to other people and their need for others to recognize their greatness. I find it embarrassing and I'm not sure why. I think it might be connected to my embarrassment for the realities of humanity's needs and behavioural patterns — these desires towards greatness and how deep down they're just antidote for negotiating mortality.

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