OMG! I can totally relate! Please, God, let me just be dumb enough to not care!
As for careers and life choices ... Can I just switch every ten years? Learn something new? Get excited again about learning a completely different industry?
In the U.S. today, being unable to discern hypocrisy would be a gift! Wanting leaders who are more strategic and intelligent than myself would be a gift!
Great piece!
(Having ADHD doesn't help. I can't exactly distill all the info I have in my head, but do understand it. :)