Ah, that makes sense.

If you have miraculous brain-fixing techniques and deploy them [...] on yourself for years, then after those years you should surely [...] (2) not still need fixing all the time.

I think my only response to what you said is that some things need fixing forever since the perfect picture is being viewed from a fuzzy perspective. Personally, I doubt that the self-improvement ladder ever ends.

But I understand and concede the point.