If you were offered a chance to save the world in some way, would you do it?
If you answered yes it might be because that’s how you would like to be seen. You might want to be the good guy who’s known for doing good deeds, you might like the status that it would bring, and it might fulfill your need to do meaningful work.
If you answered no it might be because you don’t want to be on the hook. You might not want the responsibility that comes with a position like that or you might be worried you would be seen as a fraud because you don’t know how to save the world.
These are the deep forces that drive our behaviour and our decision making.
Once you begin to see this framework in yourself, you will start to see it in others. All of a sudden it’s a whole lot easier to not take things personally.