Lop-Sided Development

Your aim then must be to work against the predominance of one center in you, which causes you to be lop-sided and prevents the other centers from developing. But if you have understood what has been said so far, you will see that in such a case it is only by seeing yourself and estimating your inner state in the light of the Work that you will become dissatisfied with yourself. Viewing yourself from life, there is no reason why you should attempt to be different from what you are.

Let us take a person whose center of gravity is in the Intellectual Center. That person is only interested in theories and abstractions. In life, there is no reason why they should be dissatisfied with themselves. But observing themselves in the light of the teaching of the Work, they will begin to be dissatisfied with their state of being.

Maurice Nicoll, “Personal Aim" in Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky (Vol. 1, p. 174)