It's also a virtue...

When we lift weights, we realize that we like some exercises better than others.  Some bodies naturally gravitate toward squats, others toward bench presses, and still others toward deadlifts or something else.  This is all good.  The world needs all of our different kinds of strength.

However, we still have to do the ones we don’t like as much.  Sometimes we don’t like an exercise because we feel like we’re not good at it.  News flash:  we’re not going to get better unless we work on it a bit.  Do it first, get it over with, and move along.  Other times, it seems like no matter how hard we try, we can’t seem to progress at a particular exercise (I’m looking at you, 50-pound dumbbell bench presses…).  Usually, the exercise in question either involves a smaller muscle group or some muscles or joints that have been compromised at some point.  In other words, all those big muscles we use to squat or deadlift tend to get stronger more quickly than, say, our deltoids in our shoulders that we use to do lateral raises.

Patience is also a muscle-like thing.  We exercise that, too.