“We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.”
This is the story of a boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost patience, should drive a nail behind the door.
The first day, the boy nailed 37 nails behind the door. The weeks that followed, as he learned to control his temper, becoming less nails dug behind the door.