
There once was a little boy who had a bad temper.
His Father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost
his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the boy had driven 37
nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control
his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down.
He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails
into the fence....
Finally the day came when the boy
didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the
father suggested that the boy now pull out one nail for each day