Brad Miller knows that if he wants to improve as a basketball player, he has to start by becoming more aware of his weaknesses. He knows that he needs to become more independent and take more risks, and he also needs to be more confident in his abilities. He knows that he needs to get rid of his dependency on other people and to develop a stronger sense of self-awareness. Finally, Brad knows that he needs to overcome his uncertainty and to stop being so sentimental about things.

Brad Miller may experience discord in relationships. Although he is friendly and outgoing and commits himself to friendships and partnerships, he often finds it difficult to balance his own needs, desires, and goals with the objective reality of others and their individual desires and needs. To understand and overcome this problem, he should accept the idea that every relationship follows more or less the same general scheme: a base of intimacy and an accomplishment or purpose apart from the relationship itself. If he succeeds in defining, through discussion and communication, what sort of intimate relationship he and his partners want to maintain and what accomplishment or purpose they hope to achieve, many conflicts will be avoided.

Brad Miller’s mental processes are lightning quick. As a result, he tends to jump to conclusions and make immediate decisions before he knows all the facts. This rash and impetuous behavior could cause communications problems and arouse needless opposition in others. His mind is generally too busy with the immediate future to take time for careful analysis and reflection. However, the same behavior has a positive side. It can be of great use to him in rushed or quickly changing work situations, which require last-minute, immediate decisions.