There was a boy who was always losing his temper. His father gave him a bag full of nails and told to him, My son, I want you to hammer a nail into our garden fence every time you need to direct your anger against something and you lose your temper.
So the son started to follow his fathers advice. On the first day he hammered in 37 nails, but getting the nails into the fence was not easy, so he started trying to control himself when he got. As the days went by, he was hammering in less nails, and within weeks he was able to control himself and was able to refrain from getting angry and from hammering nails. He came to his father and told him what he had achieved. His father was