neurotypicals giving advice: put the thing you want to do most at the bottom of your to-do list and the thing you want to do least at the top. that way, you will automatically force yourself to get the unpleasant thing over with quickly to get to nice thing faster
me: do not underestimate my ability to put off activities that i love. i will do nothing all day before i do one unpleasant thing
Subject and agent are pretty straightforward, but catalyst? In chemistry catalysts increase the speed of reactions without actually reacting themselves, and with all the links to alchemy we already have, could we have something that isn't human or avatar, but like an avatar booster? Something completely different? In this statement, the statement giver doesn't seem to inherently have any 'powers' or anything, but he has some great synergy with those dice. For the most part.
With this and the gifted children program, were the institute looking for avatars and catalysts, or were they raising them?