Jung understood something most self-help advice misses: clarity isn't about acquiring better information from the outside world—it's about removing the obstacles within ourselves that distort what we already perceive. When we're clouded by unexamined fears, resentments, or inherited beliefs we've never questioned, we mistake our inner static for external truth. A person deciding whether to leave a job, for instance, might spend months researching the market and competitors when the real question—whether they're fleeing or moving toward something—lives only in their own psychology. The hard work isn't seeing *farther*; it's seeing *truer*.