There have always been those who wrote books, dreamed of empires or told people hallelujahs. These things have in common the tendency, or the same kind of joy, that we can also sometimes find in posting a series of videos, installing gadgets in the garden, picking up a piece of paper from the ground, exhibiting ourselves half-naked, or developing a royalty-free vaccine. There are even those who enjoy fixing a corpse. What force is it that leads some people to carry out actions like those of a lover, creative acts that presuppose the presence of a kind of receptive, inspiring community, which surely does not exist in reality?
The “drive to achieve” consists of nothing more or less than wanting to see something achieved, because it is something that seems valuable to us, something that we judge to be worthwhile; something that seems to stand out with special brilliance over the “normal and ordinary” things of everyday life.

Adolfo Palacios