If you want to improve, the first step is to become aware of the weaknesses which may be holding you back and preventing your evolution. These might be your defensive attitudes, your fear of being dispossessed, your ambivalence, your radicalism, or your over-reliance on your instincts.

Nelly’s mind tends to soar from one ideal or theory to the next without ever adopting any one approach. Because she rarely takes the trouble to steady her vision and deepen it, or to stick to an activity after it becomes tiresome, she is often disappointed. Her lack of constancy and her inability to commit herself to any long-term effort, as well as her tendency to evade responsibility, could be obstacles to her life in the real world.