So, the most honest thing is to thing long and hard about what I really believe - which is the same as the things that I really want to be true:
- I want the creatives to win, for the engineers and the MBAs to fail with their simplistic worldviews and models.
- I want wisdom to compound over time, and to be rewarded by positive outcomes - strong relationships, material comfort, societal respect.
- I want the people who are lucky but wrong to eventually bottom out. Especially those who profit from luck but carry no downside (and I want that to be Wall Street).
- I want those who are willing to go outside of the system and herd safety to be rewarded with the upside they are aiming for.
Many of these stem from my conception of my own identity, and creating a worldview where my unique attributes are of higher standing even when external markers of that standing say otherwise.
In the above statements, then, you can clearly see what attributes I idealize, and which attributes I think I have, or at least aim for.