GRIT
Perseverance over adversity
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GRIT is for those who stay.
No extraction. No shortcuts.
Just belief, discipline, and a cult-like community.
More to come.
“With everything perfect,” Nietzsche wrote, “we do not ask how it came to be.”
“Instead we rejoice in the present fact as though it came out of the ground by magic.”
“No one can see in the work of the artist how it has become.”
“Our vanity, our self-love, promotes the cult of the genius.”
“To call someone ‘divine’ means: ‘here there is no need to compete.’”
Interest. Capacity to practice. Purpose. Hope.
From the very beginning to the very end, it is inestimably important to learn to keep going even when things are difficult, even when we have doubts.
If we stay down, grit loses.
If we get up, grit prevails.
Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening.
Persistence captured in movement.
Interests are not discovered through introspection.
Interests are triggered by interactions with the outside world.
It isn’t suffering that leads to hopelessness.
It’s suffering you think you can’t control.
Perseverance over adversity.
And if you’ve done that,
that’s a success.