I'm unique - just like everybody else.

I have dicovered that I lack the capacity for endurance - a funny thing for a cross-country captain to find out. I have initiative to start a project, but if there isn't some sort of short-term gratification, I quickly lose interest.

Thank goodness I'm not alone in this.

Look around. The most closely examined aspect of our financial system is the stock market, which, essentially is a measure of how many people think that they can make money off a company in the future. Measuring the Dow is essentially fiat. Yet, because numbers are being produced every day, every hour, every minute, they are reported constantly and heralded as the sole beacon of hope or despair - at least, until the next set of numbers comes in.