Something in you wants to prove a point. Give it a job.

Then do not thank it.
Thanked, it becomes an opinion, and opinions get consulted about weights.
Unthanked, it stays what it is —
a pair of hands on the third set of eight, empty room,
weight settled the night before, getting you through rep seven without a word.

The most useful thing you own works only while nobody is congratulating it.

The Book of Beasts 24:9