Alan: Personally, I don't warm to this Jonathan Fields. What's more, much of the first half of his talk is tedious. But by the end he makes sense? There are three questions. What if I fail? What if I do nothing? What if I succeed? Whether we think these options through or feel these options through, we soon realize that the only sensible thing to do  -- perhaps the only non-catastrophic to do -- is to risk failure by pursuing our dreams.
           The Romans believed that everyone was endowed with a personal genius - a kind of "genie" who spoke the essential of our life. Either we give voice to our genie by letting it create itself in the world, or, the repressed genie -- the shackled and smothered genie -- rattles around at increasing speed, trying to get out, until it breaks something. Because the break is deep inside, rather than out in the world where we can see it and work on it, a broken genie is extremely hard to mend.