To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Leap, and the net will appear.
I can, therefore I am.
You never know what motivates you.
Who seeks shall find.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.