A very easy method exists for derailing any kind of personal development you might have gained from counseling, personal contemplation, or by surviving a significant event: boast about your success. Boasting about your accomplishments reveals them to the world incompletely, thus divorcing you from a complete understanding of the true meaning of your success (which can only come over time), and stunting the full effect of your success by forcing it into a definition that must and can only be incomplete (for it has been packaged into phrases and generalities so as to make it more understandable to others, a process which, similar to verbally describing Van Gogh's painting Wheat Field and Cypresses, inevitably ruins the fine and tender nuances of the original piece and renders it nearly impotent).
But, today, with few thinking before they speak and even fewer taking the time to contemplate a situation before beginning to ask questions (which I believe is a symptom of information-overload, an actual condition that short-circuits the brain and literally makes you stupid), we are expected to explain every single step of our day and every single thing we do, destroying whatever internal success we might have made by trying to explain that which cannot be explained to the world.
Lao Tzu says: He who speaks does not know. He who knows does not speak. (Tao Teh Ching #56)
What a strange and cunning little man.
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