Success means doing things you don't want to do.
You know, I always do my best, no matter the quality of the film.
The guillotine was most effective and used until fairly recently.
I remember the special effects people had fun making a little doll that looked like me - which is not so easy - and it had to move along the floor.
I refused to beat my head against stone, of course.
I found myself in a pattern of being attracted to people who were somehow unavailable, and what I realized was that I was protecting myself because I equate the idea of connection and love with trauma and death.
What do you think God gave you more wealth than is requisite to satisfy your rational wants for, when you look around and see how many are in absolute need of that which you do not need? Can you not take the hint?
I think that is the difference between the very good and the best.
As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.