The Art of Persistence

As humans, it’s normal to want things, to have goals and desires. Being successful is what everyone wants, and ambition is obviously crucial for us to be able to fulfill that quintessential life goal. True, every successful person is ambitious and relentless at what they do, but ambition alone isn’t enough. Because if you want to become a champion in life, then keep going, no matter what kind of hardships you encounter, you need to learn to keep playing the game until you succeed.

Some days, the actions you take will be impactful, other days your best will be for naught, but keep on going forward to persevere and finally succeed. The excellent example for this is Thomas Alfa Edison. He was a brilliant scientist and inventor, who had a misfortune in 1914. His house burnt down, along with all his research project. Following this, instead of weeks indulging in regret, he said

“What benefit there is in destruction! All our mistakes have been burnt to ashes, thank God! Now we can begin afresh, all over again!”

Well, that statement is certainly a hyperbole, but the point still stands. The core of success, which is that success can only be attained after going through tremendous amounts of effort and total failure. The story implies, that in order to succeed, you have to be able to fully embrace our shortcomings, that regardless of the many problems you will be facing, it is in your hands to turn obstacles into leaping stones. The moment that you change your mindset into this, is when every single failure brings you a teeny bit closer to success. So that every single failure eliminates a wrong way, which makes it easier for you to find the right, correct way.

It cannot be said that you have truly failed, unless you abandon all hope and give up on your efforts. So keep going, because that, friends, is the art of persistence. The act of getting up when you’re beaten down, the act of relentlessly trying, so very hard, to realize your aspirations and dreams, the act of giving your all, to correct the horrendously inequitable cards you’ve been dealt in life.

Don’t quit, remember that persistence is one of the most important quality someone can have for success.

If you can’t fly, then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King, Jr.