You need direction.

Someone to try an' surpass, maybe hate.

[He doesn't mention that being him, but he's convinced it is. It's implied anyway.]

Then ya' need to focus on who ya' wanna protect the most. It translates over, of course, to protectin' the others - but when yer' fightin' for progression an' all...bein' so unfocused won't do ya' no good.

[For him, it was Aizen and Matsumoto, and it's the only way he knows how to teach her.]