Less cheering is that it explains why the successful are seldom good eggs. Superior people are alienating; insecure people are exhausting. People who are both are doubly unbearable, especially when you take into account all the dissembling they usually do to mask both traits. And too much discipline is a dull trait in a friend as it means it is impossible to get them to down tools and open a bottle of wine instead.

相对来说，让人不那么振奋的一点是，该理论解释了为什么成功人士很少是讨人喜欢的人。有优越感的人会令他人敬而远之，没有安全感的人则会让他人失去耐性。这两者兼而有之的人则更加令人难以忍受。如果考虑他们通常会为掩饰这两种品质而做出的种种举动，情况就更是如此了。而过于自律对朋友来说又太过沉闷，因为这意味着不可能让他停下工作，开瓶葡萄酒享受一下。

Yet as a parent I extract a shred of comfort from The Triple Package. Chua’s first book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, upset liberal mothers everywhere, making us feel uneasy about being such softies with our children. This time, I feel slightly let off the hook. Surely anything I do to try to increase my children’s superiority will lessen their feeling of inadequacy. While if I try to make them more insecure, I’ll risk denting their superiority. So the lesson I choose to extract is to muddle through, exactly as before.

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