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.

La historia no es mecánica porque los hombres son libres para transformarla.

人一般而言，天生的能力对他影响不大 – 他如何造就自己决定他的人生。

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.