Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
Life is a maths equation. In order to gain the most, you have to know how to convert negatives into positives.