Habitat Chronicles: You can't tell people anything

When people ask me about my life’s ambitions, I often joke that my goal is to become independently wealthy so that I can afford to get some work done

Eventually people can be educated, but what you have to do is find a way give them the experience, to put them in the situation. Sometimes this can only happen by making real the thing you are describing, but sometimes by dint of clever artifice you can simulate it.