It is much easier to learn how to do something than how to be something.
And no matter how good you are at the doing, success and happiness will be limited if your being is not proper. A professional "anything", who is extremely skilled but impossible to get along with, for instance, will lose a job that a lesser-skilled, but pleasant competitor will gain or retain.
And one of the most important "beings" is to "be" self-confident. How much easier is it to learn calculus, than to learn self-confidence. Is "being" learned through the satisfaction from many successful "doings"? While excellence in "doing" is active, and involves conscious repetition of logical steps, "being" is acquired whether we are aware or not. Some of being seems to be nature, but one can improve the being by certain doing. However it seems that to hone the being is a 360 degree operation, where doing is much less demanding.
What is your experience?
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