What do you do?

We feel anxious because we live in a world of snobs.

People who take a tiny part of us—our professional identities and use these to come to a complete verdict about how valuable we are as humans.

The opposite of a snob is your mother, who doesn't care about your status but your soul.

Make up your own definition of success instead of uncritically leaning on society's.

Those who succeed at making money rarely succeed at empathy or family life.

We should refuse to let our outer achievements define our sense of self entirely.

There remain so many vital sides of us that will never appear on our business cards that do no stand a chance of being captured by that maddeningly blunt and unimaginative question, "What do you do?"