“Connais-toi pour t’améliorer” (“Know yourself to improve yourself”).*
Alain de Botton

Old opinions shouldn’t define who you are in the future … But if you avoid pain, you avoid improvement. Avoid embarrassment, and you avoid success. Avoid risk, and you avoid reward … Remember the classic story arc of the hero’s journey. The crisis – the most painful moment – defines the hero … If you avoid pain, you avoid what you really want.**
Derek Sivers

You create your room
of requirement when you identify where you are
and where you could be – both are necessary,
The latter being identified when you take stock of your talents and
energies and values;^
The fun stuff doesn’t begin when we get to perfect, rather it opens up
When we embrace our imperfection but also discover
there’s far more to us than we thought (and, there’s far more to others, too) –
And then we have to move to action this,
For hero think: person willing to
step into uncomfortable one step at a time.

*Alain de Botton’s Religion For Atheists;
**Derek Sivers’ Hell Yeah and No, and How To Live;
^I can help with this – geoffreybaines@gmail.com;
^^I’m pregnable, I’m pervious, Imperfect?.