Anything you deliberately showcase as your “strength” is often your most vulnerable compensatory overgrowth.

In physiology, heart hypertrophy is not a sign of strength but a precursor to heart failure. In psychology, extreme arrogance is to suppress extreme inferiority, and excessive aggression is to defend against inner anxiety. The system, in order to cover up a faulty vulnerability, is forced to allocate ten times the resources to build a complex patch. You think you are trying to make up for your shortcomings through effort, but in reality, you are overdrawing the system’s overall lifespan to maintain a fragile facade.

True strength is usually relaxed and dull. If you constantly feel tense, it indicates you are on the verge of collapse, desperately holding up a weight that does not belong to you.