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But somewhere along the way we lost that childlike joy and became contaminated with society's standards for "success", and our definition of "success" mutated from the simple "spending as much time as possible doing what I love" to "making piles of money, getting a lot of pats on the back from other people, filling my trophycase with meaningless awards .." and so on and so on.

On Discipline by Paul Guyot 2006