Repetition will make you stronger









There is sometimes an advantage … even 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 works up a belief that he has strength … 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 already 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.

The lesson is to … make an effort … do your best … even when feeling inadequate.  Work on your world, again and again. The repetition will take care of you: your efforts cannot come to nothing, for you will be stronger.

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