That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

I don’t think you can compare different eras. Every era has its own challenges and its own special things.

建筑是一种象征，建造行为也是。建筑是人类创造的最沉重、最永久的事物之一，它们是通过巨大的努力和牺牲而建成的。