If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Your philosophy determines whether you will go for the disciplines or continue the errors.