I think we should not just get complacent in the area of our individual development. Knowing our weaknesses should help us understand our personality and inject us with the desire to get better by improving on those weak areas. This way, we can boast of living. There actually is no essence for living if we are not getting better. Getting better here is about some behavioural tendencies we have detected about ourselves that are not so good. Sometimes we are quick to accept those faults as our peculiarity whereas they are issues we can overcome by simple discipline and determination.
As we desire to make it in life - get a good job, get rich, have a happy marriage, and enjoy ourselves - we should also know that one of the things that will make the journey more tedious for us is our individual errors. Of course life is not an easy endeavour, but we should also try not to elongate our journey to the promised land by ourselves.
So when we read books on temperament, on understanding the self, on how to know your weaknesses, etc we should always have it in mind that we are looking for solutions to some of our inconsistencies and not an excuse for our faults.
Of course we are not perfect, but we can be better than we are at the moment. It does not mean we are that bad though, but why stop when there is a better...? So, (singing) good better best, I shall never rest, Till my good is better and better best....
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