No people are all different. You are trying to project your outlook on life on everyone. If people were all the same then we would not have winners and losers, we wouldn’t have leaders, followers, pawns, kings, queens etc… Your reality is what you make it. How you respond to external stimulus is within yourself, how you were raised and how you were shaped. The only thing that tilts the scale is that alot of people are born into wealth or luck or whatever you want to call it and most are not. However you will never convince me that we are all slaves to this all encompassing external stimulus or pressures that we are all aware of or not aware of and that these drive our every move and we can say we did this or that because of those things. I am sure driven people who are successful in life succumb to that mentality.
I guess I am like your wife. To me it is a pile of bullshit.
