If you really want to improve and transform yourself, the first step is to become aware of the weaknesses which may be holding you back and preventing your evolution: your need to bluff, your inability to manage certain things, your instability, your unwillingness to change certain opinions.

Aaron Norris accepts that every relationship follows a general scheme: a base of intimacy and an accomplishment or purpose apart from the relationship itself. If he and his partners can define these things before conflicts arise, they will have a much easier time working together.