I just finished reading Eric Hoffer's Ordeal of Change. It's a great book exploring the behavior and psychology of people who make change happen. In the last

I just finished reading Eric Hoffer's Ordeal of Change. It's a great book exploring the behavior and psychology of people who make change happen. In the last few chapters he summarizes it by saying: "The severing of the individual from a compact group is an operation from which the individual never fully recovers. The individual on his own remains a chronically incomplete and unbalanced entity. His creative efforts and passionate pursuits are at the bottom a blind striving for wholeness and balance. The individual striving to realize himself and prove his worth has created all that is great in literature, art, music, science and technology." It clearly applies to many apex predators that spend most of their lives on there own.