# Which kind of practice would you take up this month if you took this passage as instruction?

_Theme: **growth** - card 4/4 - 2026-05-01_

> 284. _Belief in Oneself._—In general, few men have belief in themselves:—and of those few some are endowed with it as a useful blindness or partial obscuration of intellect (what would they perceive if they could see _to the bottom of themselves_!). The others must first acquire the belief for themselves: everything good, clever, or great that they do, is first of all an argument against the sceptic that dwells in them: the question is how to convince or persuade _this sceptic_, and for that purpose genius almost is needed. They are signally dissatisfied with themselves.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche, _The Joyful Wisdom (La Gaya Scienza)_

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