To know yourself, you must recognise your rock-bottom inner self, compare your dreams to reality and desires to morality, and from that base explore the social, personal, private and hidden selves that complete your multifaceted humanity.*
Robert McKee

we produce against the feeling of lack**
Byung-Chul Han

But what do we lack? –
Not things but self,
Without which no amount of activity and
stuff will compensate,
Not to be people who have but
to be people who must, the product of
the deep self.

The most useful work we create causes a change to happen. And the more profound the change, the less predictable it is.^

*Robert McKee’s Character;
**Oliver Burkeman’s Meditations for Mortals;
^Seth Godin’s blog: Comfortable with the fuzziness.