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> However, achieving such a milestone will require you to (on an ongoing basis) look deeply inwards, answer fundamental questions about yourself, and change your life.

> most people haven't even figured out what they want and so they default to mainstream consumerism

Not everyone defaults to mainstream consumerism. Some of us just don't understand and cannot comprehend why others are such consumers. Keeping up with the Joneses? Why?

For my family at least, we require no deep inward analysis, fundamental questions about ourselves or changing of our lives. To sum up: this is just how we are.