Catch a dog in your favorite chair, and he slinks away abashed. The cat will pretend incomprehension; surely you must know it's her chair?
If you're 70th or 80th on the money list, it's not very motivating.
Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
Scratch most feminists and underneath there is a woman who longs to be a sex object. The difference is that is not all she wants to be.
People don't go to Starbucks for the coffee - of that I'm pretty sure - they go for the atmosphere, they go for the 70 decibels, they go for the Starbucks effect.
They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window.