Something that helped when I was younger: the realization that almost nobody will be remembered long after their death. How many people can you name from 1,000 years ago? How many people can you name from last century? How many billionaires who passed away in the 90s could you name? Or in the 2000s? How many scientists could you list who passed away in the last decade?

Mark Zuckerberg won’t be mentioned much a few years after his death despite being one of the richest humans and accomplishing it in his early 20s. Sure we remember Steve Jobs, but almost nobody bothers to think about him other than for a moment here and there. We’re almost all connected by that lack of permanence, from kings to commoners. Even the people we remember have very little impact in the mindspace of people’s day to day life.