The farmer who pulled his seedlings

Recovery has no manners. It does nothing while you push, then heals on the third day you give up.

So you start doubting the method, then yourself, then whether the last month was a waste. That loop is worse than the original problem.

There was a farmer in the state of Song who thought his sprouts were growing too slowly. He walked into the field and lifted each one up a little, by the stem, from morning until dark. By evening his back was aching. He went home and told his family, I'm worn out, I helped the sprouts grow.

His son ran out to the field. Every plant was dead.

Mencius used this to explain why forcing things ruins them. China has been nodding at that story for two thousand three hundred years and then going out to pull the seedlings anyway.

Here is what I think the hurry actually is. It isn't impatience. It's a quiet belief that time is not working on your behalf, that nothing happens unless your hands are in the soil.

What you did today is happening under the surface where you can't see it.

MOJOWAY exists to keep you honest about your own pace. Growth has a season, and in the history of the world nobody has ever rushed a root.