Back in the steam age, there was a job on the railways known as a wheeltapper. This guys job was to go around the locomotives in the shed and tap the wheels, listening to the sound that they made to see if there were any defects, which would make a discordant sound. A perfect wheel would ring like a bell.
There have been some people that I have met that can also described in the same way: they ring true. I did a psychology course a few years back and one of the theories of the development of human personality was Maslow's hierarchy of needs and the concept of a self-actualised personality. They seem to be really "together" and you get the feeling that whatever they wanted to do or achieve they would. They have ambition, but it doesn't unduly affect their personality. They are not achieving in order to be happy, but are already happy and are achieving in order to satisfy a sort of curiosity. To see how far they can go, what can be achieved.
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