We are all resilient now. It goes out of fashion like this. Resilient when there was pandemic, when it comes to paying the bills, at school, at work in sport … you soon write it, to say it, to post it on social media as if this served to add value to simpler feelings but equally substantial as stubbornness and constancy. It is all a flourishing of resilient companies and often disproportionate. What then the effort, the ability to do it, to endure it and to go further is ancient history. “Pathei Mathos“, Learned in pain. Two words were sufficient in Aeschylus to explain what effort was in Agamemnon and what it was used for. The Greek playwright theorized how knowledge could only be formed through suffering and everything started from there, then as today, as always. But fatigue leads to something else is inherent in daily life. The effort is the necessary way, the price to pay to get to a result, to give a complete meaning to every goal, to every dream. Impossible to measure it, there are no rigorous parameters: it is a “experience ad personam” because everyone has their own effort, their pain threshold, their own limit. But little changes because fatigue is an obligatory way to get to the goal. And it is a concept that sometimes escapes, especially in years and in a world that in all ways, fatigue tries more and more to reset it and cancel it. Thought runs to technology that progresses in all fields and elaborates models that serve to relieve the weight of our activities. And it is there. But something is lost. Because it is only struggling that you learn, appreciate, you strengthen, you become more suitable. And it is only struggling, “fatiguing”, that the body and muscles defend themselves, indicate what is the limit beyond which they do not go, they require to stop, sometimes relegate, and recover. Those who are honest, especially with themselves, know before they will almost always have to struggle, that they cannot be worth discounts and shortcuts to live in peace of conscience, that the prize will arrive even if it is never taken for granted. At the end of the 19th century, Angelo Mosso, doctor and physiologist wrote an emblematic title: “The effort”. Nothing more, without explanations and without subtitles. He explained, he was born in a very poor worker family with a childhood spent in his father’s blacksmith’s shop, what was the attitude towards life based on the idealization of sacrifice. A “treaty” of “Mossian” philosophy that has become essential over time even in its extreme synthesis: “fatigue, which we also have to consider as a poisoning, can alter the constitution of the blood and the conditions of life, without warning it- he wrote- but he does not always bring with him a quid of negativity. It is always necessary to force the mind to start working but then our car, working, does not depress and does not diminish its strength, but it becomes rather more suitable for work “.