The theme underlying all of the challenges is the basic struggle to be a well-balanced, good-hearted person. The Teacher tells us not to fool ourselves; it is very difficult to be a truly good human being. He likes to relate a story about two men who stand before God and God asks them about their goals in life. The one man states that he’d like to be a saint. God tells him that is very nice. When the other man says that he just wants to be a good human being, God replies, “You are very ambitious.”