Perhaps I want to attend medical school because my parents need me to
be a doctor or because, among my peers, going to medical school is the right
or the most highly regarded thing to do. If so, what I want is what I think I
ought to want. I may still think I want it, but sooner or later I am likely to
find myself unsatisfied no matter how successful I am in my medical career.
This will happen if being a doctor does not really suit me, if I have the soul of
an artist or of a farmer.