Crash Early, Crash Often (Ribbonfarm Roughs Book 3)

by Venkatesh G. Rao

Though very few choose to live imaginatively, I’ve found that people in their twenties often think they are doing so. What they are actually doing is taking on a cargo-cult version of self-actualization as a sort of displacement tactic. It is easier to play that game than take on the esteem or love/belonging layers where the bottleneck actually is at that life stage.