Such is the danger of optimism. If you think you can do it, you’ll try. And you might keep trying. If it works, great—you did it. You don’t need blankets anymore. Good job. That was really hard, which is amazing when you consider how much you didn’t need to do it. If it doesn’t work, you’ll keep trying anyway. There’s always the dangling carrot of what you could be if you maxed out.
