I am strong in mind, body, and spirit.

Strength shows up more clearly in the recovery than in the effort. Two people reach the top of the same hill. One is breathing normally by the time the gate is reached; the other is still going five minutes later.

Same climb, different reserve. It works the same way in the other registers — how long a piece of criticism keeps you awake, how quickly you can be civil again after being wrong in front of people.

Nobody gets to skip the hill. Strength is only ever the settling time afterwards, and settling time is trainable.