But you can learn to to execute your basic techniques with the speed, power, and balance necessary for combat. Form training will condition your body and mind to have the discipline to remain calm and controlled under pressure. Done the way most students do them, forms are a really boring waste of time. Forms must be performed as if your life depends on it. Only then can the full benefits be obtained.
Heart is the refusal to accept defeat.
This is often easier said than done. Most of us go through life seeking the easiest possible route to get to where we wish to go. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but there are times when we have no choice but to fight. I've found that by having my students spend the entire class performing intense form training without cease causes them to collapse before exhaustion or reach deep within themselves and find the will to keep going in spite of the pain and fatigue. For greater improvement on these, one must develop proper breathing.