Foreign to the rest of the world, was our whole manner of living—reading, writing, consuming, creating, thinking, talking, training, exercising, sitting in meditation, learning new skills, cooking meals, learning new languages.

We all were fierce competitive scholars and athletes for no reason other than we enjoyed it and it made our lives better and reached our relationships to higher levels. We woke up every morning going after all of it in a different way, without being confined to the downtrodden channels.

We had each already before pursued this manner of living alone. The relationships, however, are essential. You can not maximize a man’s potential without involving his social persuasion.

A result of our having higher desires, but also higher abilities to satisfy them. A positive feedback loop, where our desires motivate forming new abilities, which in turn allow us to satisfy higher desires, and so on.