Pressing forward when you are not equal to the task, friend, invites mistakes and serious misfortune. Gauge your own strength carefully before undertaking any new initiative, and venture only as far as you can go with certainty of success. To plunge ahead blindly at the beginning is unskillful, because this is precisely the time when an unexpected setback would produce the most disastrous results. Beware of self-confidence that is not grounded in the facts.
