There's never going to be a decathlon that you're going to have 10 events that your satisfied with. You're always, always going to be dissatisfied in something, and that always draws you back to try to retry that the next time you do a decathlon. It's like you go for the perfect 10.
“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”
“We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.”