What is the biggest obstacle to our improvement?
Our biggest enemy is the weakness / fear that keeps us away from errors and therefore from the lessons behind them.
One part of guilt is in each of us, the other is in those who have supported and fed this natural human instinct of homologation.
At school (but also in a lot of family situations) the direct experience of the world is often precluded and the students are therefore educated not to experiment first-person but to automatically believe in second-hand "truth" (sometimes neutral statements, sometimes ingenuous, sometimes voted for not so noble ends).
When we do something that we feel is truly relevant for us (in work, in martial arts, in any field, read A relentless pursuit), a moment must come when we wonder if the way they taught us is the best or if there is room for improvement: we could be right, we could be wrong, it's completely normal but we will never know it until we will try.
Only by personally and deeply trying out all that is wrong we can understand how to achieve the result that we have chosen.
If we do not force us to walk this way, we will never really learn anything and we will never get something really ours.
Can you tell an example of personal experience (small or large) that you have earned by going against conformism?