Before you go nuts and indulge in behavior you’ve never seen in yourself before, try to remember this. Nobody in Africa cares. Nobody in Asia cares. Nobody in Lapland cares. Nobody in baseball cares, in golf, in soccer—except maybe if you’re writing about baseball or golf or soccer. But even then they don’t care about you: They care about baseball players and golfers, people who bang balls around.

Carolyn See on putting your work, and your behaviour, into perspective.