If I ever set up a self improvement program (I’m still in the “healer heal thyself” stage), my slogan is going to be something like “let me help you be average”.
It’s counterintuitive. I will grant that.
But it seems to me that in shooting for the moon we so often become unbalanced as individuals. Are you driven, task-focused, perfectionistic? You likely lack the ability to relax, and likely are somewhat stunted in your capacity for deep empathy. Are you super-sensitive, giving, nurturing, loving? Then you likely lack the stomach to truly grasp the extent of the capacity most humans have for evil. Your entire political ideology likely rests on wishful thinking.
What we need are average people, well balanced people, people who have a good Go switch, and a good Stop switch, who care but not too much, who get things done, but stay in contact with their softer sides.