My biggest takeaway from the article: "Most people are primarily externally driven; they do what they do because they want to impress other people. This is bad

My biggest takeaway from the article: "Most people are primarily externally driven; they do what they do because they want to impress other people. This is bad for many reasons, but here are two important ones. First, you will work on consensus ideas and on consensus career tracks. You will care a lot—much more than you realize—if other people think you’re doing the right thing. This will probably prevent you from doing truly interesting work, and even if you do, someone else would have done it anyway."