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You have to make changes before people are clamoring for changes. If people are asking for changes, it's too late.
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You have to be driven by the stories that you want to tell. You can't simply be responding, or there won't be any real heart to those stories anymore.
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If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.
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It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what. The weird thing about telling someone they're dying is it tends to focus their priorities. You find out what matters to them. What they're willing to die for... What they're willing to lie for.
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Only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important. And wishing never works.
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You're supposed to trust friends. You have no reason to be his friend? That is part of the pleasure of friendship: trusting without absolute evidence and then being rewarded for that trust.
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Like I always say, there's no "I" in "team." There is a "me," though, if you jumble it up.
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People choose the paths that grant them the greatest rewards for the least amount of effort.