"What are you doing to better the world? What value do you bring to society?" "Those are not the right questions." "Why not? They're questions everyone asks." "Maybe so. But they're meaningless if you can't answer another one first." "Which is?" "The right question is "what are you doing to better yourself?" If you can't find value in yourself, if you don't think you're the best you can be, you can't be ready to better the world.