I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.
The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.
If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.
But it was in this moment, lying in bed late at night, that I first realized that the voice in my head—the running commentary that had dominated my field of consciousness since I could remember—was kind of an asshole.
The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.
Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.