The path of power requires an inviolable and unapologetic contempt for those aspects of the world which confuse the person into forgetting that psychological torment is not normal.
Hold the following multi-object analytical template:
The saint is ashamed to fear purification because it feels like dying.
The mage is ashamed to fear the world because it feels like hiding.
The sage is ashamed to delay death because it feels like cheating.
BEATING THE POISONED DRUM 