There is sometimes an advantage to insecurity -- and there can be an ironic vulnerability to security



There is sometimes an advantage to insecurity -- and there can be an ironic vulnerability to security: One who must prove his strength constantly represses a suspicion of inadequacy, and thus believes that he has it … and that he can prove it. With repetitive exercise proportional to the suspicion of inadequacy and the constant need to suppress that suspicion through attempts at proof, he just might develop it in the end. One who has strength and knows it does not need to prove it and so needs not exercise it, and so he just might no longer have it in the end.

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