Great ending to your previous post! Somehow I missed it when you first published part 2.
Totally agree with #6, because we are creatures of habit. Sometimes it's nice to break the cycle and do one thing different, giving ourself the permission to fail. Self-reflection comes in too, to identify the "softwares" we run and the outcome we got.
With #7, a mentor once told me SW SW SW:
Some Will
Some Won't
So What?