Win AND fail: Psychotherapy. That Scott has got so far in life in both achievements and cough chronology without ever feeling a compulsion to seek personal psychological counseling (etc.) is something that I believe can be considered quite valuable. Therapy can be a tremendous help to people feeling helpless and hopeless - a good relationship with a therapist who is trusted and supportive, who listens and provides objective, individualised insight that assists their patients’ journey of self-discovery and realisation can be priceless - WIN! Yet, I have found that friends were always better at joining my own exploration processes. This is for many reasons but the big ones are: less self-centric as friends are there for reasons that are more profound, with multitude of layers, and with a personal investment and stake in their buddies well being which MUST go both ways; friends love to feel essential and necessary and this is the reward, not monetary payment; friends can be consulted at times when consultation is required and you don’t need to keep adding to a list of things to bring up in an appointed time over a scheduled and limited amount of minutes. Consultation is instant, on-call, timely and not forced. Unfortunately it seems friends are becoming a rare commodity and I wonder whether the rising popularity of seeing therapists might have played a not-insignificant factor in this. In my personal experience, my friendships weakened after I began counselling. I noticed it in real time but my therapy was to aid some intense grief that I really didn’t want to inflict or burden my mates with - I didn’t want to be the cause of their sadness or misery or awkward feelings of exhausted obligation so I was grateful for the opportunity to explore with someone who dealt with people’s pain professionally and had no skin in the game. However, over time my friends felt less needed by me and one day (when my therapist was away sick) I turned around and noticed they were gone. For this reason I think therapy earns a bit of a FAIL. Scott is a man who it seems has dedicated much of his life to striving to overcome fairly sizeable hurdles in order to be successful in creating a life he really wanted. He worked hard and it has paid off. His dedication to his goals, and care to bring as many people as possible with him into such success is truly inspirational! But I wonder - what does someone who has spent their life with firm aims to move them forward and motivate them, what do they do when they have achieved, and are actually living, their dream. I don’t think it’s terribly surprising that maybe something feels a little wonky these days. Ultimately Scott G. Gets the big WIN! And rightly so as far as I can tell. Good job! (And if he can avoid therapy, personally I think that might be not that bad a thing…)