On privilege, most of who you are you don't deserve to be.

Nearly every really important thing that will shape the outcome of your life you didn't earn.

That's okay.

We're going to talk about this in detail, but let me start by saying that you need to abandon the idea of deserve

and embrace the fact that who you are is mostly a combination of things you had nothing to do with.

Most of who you are will be determined by forces you cannot control and which you will have to consciously work in order to

see. That's also perfectly fine because this is true for everyone. We're going to talk about

what that really means, why is important, and what that means for how you should live your life.

Think about this for a second.

I like the taste of black licorice.

Many people don't.

I didn't choose to enjoy black licorice.

Black licorice is not chemically or physically different for me than for you or for anyone else.

Yet I enjoy it, and others hate it. Why? Just chance. Some combination of forces, the way my brain

wired to perceive the chemicals in black licorice and associate them with pleasure rather than

disgust, and social forces, eating black licorish and associate them with pleasure rather than disgust,

and social forces, eating black licorice in a setting with loved ones where the smell and taste created pleasant associations, perhaps. These things wired my brain to believe that black

licorice is good. That I like black licorice. While it is a feature of my preferences, is neither reflective of some objective fact about whether black

licorice tastes good, nor is it something that I chose about myself.

It is instead just a silly example of the complex byproduct of how forces outside of our control shape our choices, our preferences,

and our desires. Most of life is like this. Think of some other examples. Think about some

things that we admire in ourselves or in others. Some people are born very, very smart. Why? Because they deserved it?

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