Avoid compulsively making things worse.

I mean not try to analyze everything to death for once, if possible, especially me.

You will find it less easy to unroot faults than to choke them by gaining virtues. Do not think of your faults, still less of others faults; in every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it and as you can, try to imitate it; and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.

Do force yourself to stop looking backward and dwelling on the professional “train wreck” you have just been in. It’s

We make progress in society only if we stop cursing and complaining about its shortcomings and have the courage to do something about them.