characters and orange juice

So I was watching one of my favorite speakers, Wayne Dyer, on a youtube video and he was speaking about how if you squeeze oranges, orange juice always comes out. That it's made of orange juice and so each time, that's what you'll get, that's its true substance. Makes sense. Then he goes on to say that when people are stressed, they like to blame how they behave or act on other situations or people, but that their true nature is what comes out in those situations. So if they act like a jerk, or angry, or mean, or sweet and happy, that's what they are, that's their true nature. They can blame it on anything they want, but truly, that's their true nature. So it got me thinking that that works for our characters as we're writing them. I've always heard that a true character's nature comes out when put in stressful situations. And it's our job as a writer to create the world to put them in conflict, put them to the test. And what our story will show is our character's true nature. It's nice to think of it that way, knowing it's our job to squeeze that orange juice out. If we're not, we're not telling the story. We're not putting them in enough conflict or stress if we're not doing that. When we're writing our story, we can think of the first 10-20 pages of our story, that we're starting out with a nice, round plump orange that we just picked. That's our character before anything has happened. And then comes the inciting incident. That's when we slowly see that orange juice, or character's true nature, come out. Drip by drip, story beat, by story beat, as the conflict rises, the pressure is put upon them, until we end up with a nice tall glass of a fresh juicy story. A full glass of orange juice. Or, a nice fully fleshed out character and story. Drink up and enjoy!