I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid and hold on to it and that affects every relationship they have.
I'd never really thought about it before but now you ask I can see that how my parents handled money definitely affected my relationship with it.
I had a very very difficult relationship with my mother who was supremely self-centred. She was hilariously self-centred. She did not really take interest in anything that didn't immediately affect her.
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.
At the last Celebration I spoke before an auditorium full of people and I could just feel the affection and the positive feelings that they were exuding. It was actually moving. I remember thinking 'I'm not worthy ' because 'Star Wars' is so much bigger than all of us.
Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.
If I have affected someone in a positive way that means a lot to me.
One thing that hasn't changed though is that we still have to hear the new ad 2 or 3 times before it begins to affect us even when we're already familiar with the advertiser in question and have a positive opinion of them.
I have always viewed the mission of Wikipedia to be much bigger than just creating a killer website. We're doing that of course and having a lot of fun doing it but a big part of what motivates us is our larger mission to affect the world in a positive way.