Quitting is sometimes the best thing. It opens us up to new paths. https://hbr.org/2018/09/when-to-stick-with-something-and-when-to-quit A final benefit of perseverance is that we don’t know when our luck will turn. A recent study of the careers of nearly 29,000 artists, filmmakers, and scientists found that most of them had a hot streak in their career when […]
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All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither; deep roots are not reached by the frost. J. R. R. Tolkien
“Albert Schweitzer, the German medical missionary, described at his hospital in the African jungle. He did not hire idealists for that hospital, nor did he hire people who had a righteous sense of how much they were giving to the world. He certainly did not hire people who set out “to do something special.”He only […]
“It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – John Wooden “Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody up.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a […]
Too much comfort is dangerous. Literally Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley did an experiment some time ago that involved introducing an amoeba into a perfectly stress-free environment: ideal temperature, optimal concentration of moisture, constant food supply. The amoeba had an environment to which it had to make no adjustment whatsoever. So you […]