Not exactly the same thing, but this reminds me of advice from my own grandpa, who was handy with tools on his farm. He saw me straining to loosen a nut with a wrench. "Don't use force, just get a bigger hammer," he said and handed me a pipe to fit over the end of the wrench to increase my mechanical advantage.
Sticking nuts and bolts are the perfect meditation.
Pedant alert: consider a beefy breaker bar or a torque wrench for that mechanical advantage. A pipe slipped on the end of a wrench has a habit of slipping off or breaking the wrench, and possibly causing injury to mechanism, mechanic, etc.
But yeah, I'm with ya. It's amazing the satisfaction we get from doing stuff ourselves and from the "working smarter" stuff our elders can teach us, if we'll only slow down, ask, and listen with care.
