And during that time, I slowly, with every excruciating step, crushed a bone in my own foot. That was the first time in my life that the force of will of my mind got checked by my body. And it took me years to learn the lesson. I kept doing stuff like that, but my foot has hurt with every step I have taken since I was 19 and I am 46 now. That's a lot of steps to have learned that lesson