Recognizing, Understanding, Fixing

The things I’m most embarrassed to have done over the course of my life have almost universally been the result of self-consciousness.

I’ve worked on this a lot over the years, and the aspects of myself that I’m most proud of (and which enable the most joy and satisfaction) today, are the result of these changes.

This sort of change isn’t straightforward: it requires recognizing what’s going wrong, understanding the problem, and then eventually fixing it.

Simply noticing that something’...