Summer of Recovery VI: This Time We’re Serious™
He's channeling Robert the Bruce....
According to a legend, at some point while he was on the run during the winter of 1306–07, Bruce hid in a cave on Rathlin Island off the north coast of Ireland, where he observed a spider spinning a web, trying to make a connection from one area of the cave's roof to another. Each time the spider failed, it began again until it succeeded. Inspired by this, Bruce returned to inflict a series of defeats on the English, thus winning him more supporters and eventual victory.
The story serves to illustrate the maxim: "if at first you don't succeed, try try try again."
Other versions have Bruce in a small house watching the spider try to make its connection between two roof beams;[74] or, defeated for the seventh time by the English, watching the spider make its attempt seven times, succeeding on the eighth try