In order to progress you must kill yourself. There are bits of your life, the negative strands of thought that you need to kill in order to progress. But it's so hard to do this because to improve yourself by killing bits of yourself is to at the same way to reject part of yourself. It is to admit humility. Swallow the pride and dump it out.

Killing these negative strands of your life is also hard because it requires energy. The reason why so many people around the world chose to be morose bastards who wallow in self-pity instead of being positive people is because being negative takes no energy. All you have to do is sit in your own bed of misery and wait for the world to do you a favour. Being positive requires an injection of energy as you make your mind to do something in the world and you go out and do it no matter what that requires.