And especially, maybe you remember how at the time it didn’t seem like a flaw to you. You were not going around being like, “And today I shall be a flawed character.”
A therapist once gave me the insight that character weaknesses are strengths taken too far. Harry’s energetic and clever and knowledgeable, he’s inspired and energized by competition, and he can meme people into doing things—and he can be a know-it-all who assumes first principles & cleverness trump empirics and experience, someone who’s unwilling to lose, and irresponsible or annoying in how he leads others.
Reminds me of something about trauma being adaptive responses to a particular situation that are no longer adaptive in the current situation. E.g. being hyper vigilant is useful in genuinely highly dangerous environments but not elsewhere
A therapist once gave me the insight that character weaknesses are strengths taken too far. Harry’s energetic and clever and knowledgeable, he’s inspired and energized by competition, and he can meme people into doing things—and he can be a know-it-all who assumes first principles & cleverness trump empirics and experience, someone who’s unwilling to lose, and irresponsible or annoying in how he leads others.
Reminds me of something about trauma being adaptive responses to a particular situation that are no longer adaptive in the current situation. E.g. being hyper vigilant is useful in genuinely highly dangerous environments but not elsewhere