I wonder if there isn’t more nuance than that though, Pat? I’m the mother of two incredibly intelligent young twenty-somethings who understand TOO well and TOO deeply these huge real-world problems. It’s created such deep-seated and paralyzing despair that they really don’t feel like taking small bites IS a type of success, but rather just another spin of the hamster wheel. It’s termed “existential depression” (which you can read more about here: https://www.davidsongifted.org/gifted-blog/dabrowskis-theory-and-existential-depression-in-gifted-children-and-adults/) and which is far more common than one would imagine.

What Dave brings to the table is a very functional, real world acknowledgement of the depth of uncertainty faced by this generation (or truly by ALL generations currently living) and the means to practical mitigation strategies on a case-by-case basis. Dave is willing, like few others, to not just yell to the emperor that she wears no clothes, but step into the more important challenge of how to get the emporer to dress herself!