It's a great belt to fight for, as it holds a lot of tradition and prestige,

Prestige only cares about what we are doing and what people are saying about it. Fulfillment is found in remaining true to your Foundational Core Values while daily living out your purpose.

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. So which ones the real hero?

If this were a fight, the referee would have stopped it.

Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court.

Who the fuck cares where you went to school or where you work? The question is: Is your everyday experience good, healthy, beautiful? Because I have to tell you, while it might be cool to work for a company like Google, Apple, or The New Yorker, if your job is stupid, stressful and your boss is an asshole, there is nothing good or prestigious about that. While it might seem right to go to a school like Berkeley, if classes are overcrowded and students are nervous, anxious, religious zealots from Orange County, are you sure you want to go there? What’s good about that? To believe in prestige is to privilege abstract, collective impression over palpable, daily experience. To which I say: fuck prestige. Do what serves your everyday vitality.