The drive to achieve worldly success for positional reasons can easily become an obsessive passion. The problem is that this kind of successlike all addictive thingsis ultimately Sisyphean and unsatisfying. No one is ever famous enough, rich enough, or powerful enough. Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of famethats philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, writing in 1851, more than a century and half before social media was invented and made the whole problem ten times worse.[28]

From Strength to Strength by Arthur C. Brooks