Most people's lives are spent drifting with the tide using analogies (others buy houses, so I buy; others take civil service exams, so I take them too). Only a very few dare to design their lives using first principles (what do I want, what is the cost, what is the path).

The former is renovating an old house; the latter is rebuilding a new world.

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