Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?
People never realize how much work impacts there self esteem and sense of purpose until they leave a job.
It's nice to have one worry marched to the wings and forcefully thrown into the alleyway.
In today's competitive business world, it is not enough to do your job well; no, to be truly effective, you have to develop skills and strategies for things you'll never have to do, and situations that will never come up.
Being unique is highly over rated.
It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking to long to pay for a tub of yogurt at the supermarket could be going through something tremendous and sorrowful and arduous.