intention to achieve a goal step by step. W i s h e s can evaporate at the first setback but the will endures. W i l l i n g is a k i n d of filter, separating those who only wish from those who actually take responsibility for improving themselves and pay the price o f real change. W i t h a focused will, a character can take the blows and setbacks that life hands out. M a r t i a l arts strengthen the will, as stories do, by delivering a series of blows and falls that toughen the student. Challenging and stressful situations are repeatedly introduced so that the developing person becomes more resilient, ac customed to conflict and opposition, and determined to overcome any obstacle. 309 T H E W R I T E R ' S JOURNEY ~ T H I R D EDITION Christopher Vogler Like making a wish, making an act of the will calls forces into motion. A
in order to improve its texture, has been a enon. Immediately post-exsanguination, practice followed by many for a very long muscle is soft and tender until the onset of time. rigor mortis causes irreversible linkages Most consumers do not understand the between the actin and myosin proteins, which basic notion that all meat—red, white, or cause the meat to toughen. With aging, pink—is muscle. Its origin is muscle, which however, protein degradation and ultrastruc- converts over time into meat, and this con- tural changes occur that cause tenderization version is by no means instantaneous. The of the meat. During this tenderization phase, widely held view that postmortem storage degradation of myofibrillar and cytoskeletal of meat at refrigerated temperatures (referred proteins such as troponin, desmin, vinculin,
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