when you try to improve  or transform yourself, you run a great risk

if you know what your final stage looks like, i must ask, how do you ,before the change, evaluate how valuable the changed state will be ?

and you can't improve unless you declare yourself not good enough. and if your measuring rod is off, and you end up measuring against a standard set in the mind that you left in your old skin, then you are lost.

without objective measurement of progress, you are completely adrift in a sea in the fog