You may not be able to alter reality, but you can alter your attitude towards it, and this, paradoxically, alters reality.
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it.
What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.