I didn’t even finish the article yet, but I had to jump in here to highlight how pervasive this self-serving motivation is. It’s fostered and bolstered by the culture, and is incredibly difficult to break from the outside; though it will melt away organically via interal evilution.

I’ve been a truth-seeker for over 20 years, and only in the last 2 years has this self-focus truly dropped away. Personal goals that seemed immensely important have faded into the background and are hardly of interest. Money and material things have little lustre to my eye - I’m utterly insusceptible to monetary temptation.

The pressing need to promote truth is of primary importance, for all else loses its value in the absence of freedom. When you see this, you are relieved of your bucket-list and your stressful quest to have this and that particular experience.

You begin to become freedom, if that makes sense. It’s very liberating (quite obviously).