Say the boring thing when a newer lifter asks you. It took two years and it was mostly small plates.
Do not turn it into a story about courage. It was mostly Wednesdays.

And if they are frightened, do not tell them they will get all of it back.
You do not know that. Nobody does.
Tell them the true thing instead, which is that the arithmetic only runs one way
and that it runs slowly and that slowly is still a direction.

The Book of the Phoenix — Return 62:6