I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The more time goes on, the closer I am to the ground. I've been exposed to so many issues and people living under different pressures. It's helped me realize that a lot of glamorous things that people prioritize really don't matter.
The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.
What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it.
I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission is to leave behind me the kind of impression that will make it easier for those who follow.
Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.
I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.
I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.
Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that's what a number of us are trying to do.
I spend all my time trying to avoid the spotlight.
I try to stay out of the spotlight.