Because you already seem to know a lot of his theories--as if you've lived them, used them, even if you only put them to use in very small areas of your life.

But unlike him, I think you faced more setbacks and more defeats than you would have if you were from some other time or some other world. I think that you're too smart to keep living by theories that only brought you loss, so you abandoned them with a lot of other ideals. [A lot. Not all.]

And I don't think you've had any compelling reason to replace them--so it's left you stuck here.