[bobmaxup]

This planet has a lot of time left in it for humans to do things. One human missing an opportunity doesn't lead to the statistical outcome that that opportunity wont be fulfilled in the future. An individual is not that important to humanity as a whole progressing. Live your life.

[verisimi]

Its not a game of aggregation, despite everything you have been told. Oneself is not humanity at large.

Ignore the jumped-up, self proclaimed authorities, the things they have taught you, the servile mentality and mental structure you are in.

Oneself is the only thing important in one's life. Every individual is infinitely valuable. It's simple too - just forget everything you know, and do right, by following truth and love. It costs nothing.

PS I recognise that I must sound like a fruitcake, but the answers come from within. The revolution will not be televised.

[hypertele-Xii]

> Oneself is the only thing important in one's life.

Also known as narcissism.

[nativeit]

> There’s nothing that a therapist can tell me that I don’t already know…

Also known as arrogance.

From your many statements in this thread, you seem to be articulate and, if your cited accomplishments are truthful, generally successful. But your presumptive posturing, bordering on incurious, and projections on others for perceived failures suggests that you’re likely underestimating just how much you don’t know. “Intelligence” is a nebulous concept that manifests in a variety of ways that can be frequently difficult to pin down. Humility and the capacity for making honest evaluations for one’s own limits is a distinct form of emotional intelligence that you might find can enhance the more conventional notions of intellect that you seem to possess.

Things like higher education and therapy are not necessarily designed to imbue you with wholly novel information and experiences, absent a considerable amount of initiative and work from within. They are frameworks for providing the tools so you can achieve your potential. Nothing is perfect, you might very well find that they sometimes fail in that effort, but you are responsible for putting forth the good faith efforts to engage with these tools if you wish to achieve the success that they can facilitate.

That’s my perspective, anyway, and I wish you all the best on your path.

[verisimi]

With the next bit...

> Oneself is the only thing important in one's life. Every individual is infinitely valuable.

Is that narcissistic too?

[hypertele-Xii]

Yes. There's no such thing as "infinite value" and certainly not for every individual. Our value, especially as men, is entirely tied to our ability to get shit done. If you do nothing, you are literally worthless.

[nativeit]

Are you an adolescent?

[hypertele-Xii]

Possibly depends on your definition of adolescence. I'm 35. Wikipedia says "age provides only a rough marker of adolescence, and scholars have not agreed upon a precise definition", so if you want me to answer you accurately, you're going to have to provide more definition.