Book: Personality in psychology: the paradigm of subjectness

There is always an element of discrepancy between what you strive for and what you achieve. Regardless of whether the idea turns out to be higher than the embodiment or, conversely, the embodiment surpasses the idea, the discrepancy between the aspirations and the effects of the actions carried out stimulates the activity of a person, the movement of his activity. And as a result, a new activity is born, and not only one's own, but, possibly, other people's.