character traits in opposition to each other

i was having this involved sleepy fantasy where i had to ask someone what the hardest thing they ever did was, and then the person asked me what MY hardest thing i ever did was. so then i woke up from the fantasy and tried to figure out what it was. i guess the answer was (you guys are really getting insight into my weird internal life now) that it was the hardest to figure out the balance between courage and humility, like the interplay between the two. i guess the way you do it, or the way i did it, was figure out which trait was the more lacking, and then try to find some more of it. probably everyone overcompensates when they try to do this. then you have to go back to your roots.

for example, if there was a man, uh and he had a cat. and the cat was very pretty. and it was always smiling. sorry i got distracted and forgot, obviously this isn't a very good parable.

okay. say there was a man. he was very self confident, but one day he ran over a baby in his car, because he never watched where he was going.

okay. say there was a man. he was very shy. he was always late for work because he was so shy about merging in traffic. he got fired.

okay so both of these people are fucked. neither one is fucked more than the other.

anyway it's like the balance beam. kim zemeskl. the most awesome gymnast. you guys remember from like time magazine. how did she do the balance beam? she did not try to achieve some sort of vibrating flow of impossible balance, she practiced a lot and she knew what her limits were, and then she also learned how to do aweome leaps and flips- by PRACTICING A LOT.

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