He comes to a point where he is not only willing to identify his own faults without having to wait for some self-made misfortune to wring the admission from him, but where he does so calmly, without emotional distress, as if he were identifying them in someone else. Even more, he will seek criticism from others in order to profit by it.

-- Notebooks Category 6: Emotions and Ethics > Chapter 5: Spiritual Refinement > # 249