The Snake That Sheds Its Skin

If it's dead wood, then you have room for new growth. You want to be doing that on a fairly regular basis. And people improve very rapidly. They can improve their lives very rapidly. A lot of it low hanging fruit. If you just stop doing really stupid things that you know are stupid, your life improves a lot. So it frees you up. It also means there's there's an element there that's also associated with pride, because people tend to take pride in who they are. That's a bad idea, because that stops you from becoming who you could be. Because if you're proud of who you are, you won't let go when it's necessary...