The older I get, the more I admire equanimity as a virtue. I admire those who don’t get upset by things, who are able to live without constant avarice of one sort or another: for experience, for wealth, fame, self respect, success in some enterprise or another.
Who is more successful: the CEO who is worth billions who has to fight every day to keep his position–and having to constantly compromise morally to do so, even if he or she refused to admit it–or the pipe-fitter who comes home tired and goes fishing with his kids?