Years before Skilling’s and Holmes’s falls from grace, the late psychologist and humanist thinker Erich Fromm wrote, “Human freedom is restricted to the extent to which we are bound to our own egos. By being bound to our egos we stand in our own way…If I am what I have and if what I have is lost, then who am I?”10 Fusing a large part of your identity with any external result is a dangerous game.
