"The stories we tell about others are often the stories we tell about ourselves."
And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
"In the end, it is not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years."
