The self-destructive side of yourself is just as important and intricate to your wholeness as your seemingly more positive or resourceful side. Successful people don't make the right decisions because successful people have shadows too. Indulge in the pain. If you've got a broken ankle, just feel the f***ing pain. When you're working out and you just like you want to die, feel the death happening in you. You're going to be living as a shell of yourself. It might be a shiny, flashy, expensive shell, but just a shell, my friend. Knowing thyself is first, foremost, primary, foundational and means way more than anything else.