Also, "You can do anything you want to do if you believe it and if you work hard enough."

So much mental illness and depression eventually results when that doesn't turn out to be the reality.

Objectivity serves a purpose - to ensure that we are on a path that produces facts. It is only when we have the facts that we can make the right/effective decisions.

Our civilization is going down the tubes because people are making erroneous decisions based on their feelings.