Command a team of fifty. Recycled Goal: Mentor five people who actually want to change the world. (The "Power" was recycled into "Influence.")
One rainy Tuesday, Elias visited a local recycling plant for a pro-bono project. He watched a hydraulic press crush a mountain of discarded plastic—shattered toys, old water bottles, cracked crates. "Is it all trash?" Elias asked the foreman.
It wasn't easy. Breaking down a life is louder and messier than building one. He left the firm. He sold the glass house. People called it a mid-life crisis, but Elias knew better. He wasn't breaking down; he was refining.