"If you look only at this afternoon, it feels like a struggle. But if you look at the thirty years a warrior will carry this blade, today is just a brief, necessary conversation between the hammer and the steel."
"It’s not that the metal is stubborn," the master said. "It’s that it is durable . Its resistance now is exactly what will keep it from breaking in battle later." Sleight of Mouth by Robert Dilts
The apprentice picked up his hammer, realizing that his "problem" was actually the . "If you look only at this afternoon, it
