Then, we have to practice. But we must practice deliberately, by honing in on our weaknesses and Achilles heels, setting challenging stretch goals, and incorporating feedback.

2. Practice

We must, first of all, follow our passion. That entails discovering what our core passions are. This process involves curiosity, trying new things, experimenting, and actively seeking to develop and stay with our interests.

1. Interest

We can understand perseverance as a continuous drive to reach our goals and improve our skills and performance through persistent effort. It is a form of purposefulness and goal-orientation, which requires long-term commitment and discipline. It is fueled by passion.Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another. While aptitude, skills, and a basic degree of talent are important as determiners of success, they are not as significant as hard work and trying, again and again, to improve what we do.

What Is Perseverance in Psychology?

“It’s your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life’s story will develop.”― Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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Perseverance refers to our ability to pursue a goal or passion over time, and stick with it if we encounter obstacles or setbacks.Perseverance is closely related to a range of other concepts including resilience, motivation, drive, determination, grit, passion, and conscientiousness.

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Hope, the fourth and final ingredient, is related to the belief that our efforts matter and that they can improve our future.

4. Hope

Purpose refers to our desire to contribute to making the world a better place and to helping others. It can be a core driving force for passion.

3. Purpose

1.     Interest2.     Practice3.     Purpose4.     Hope

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Perseverance and resilience are also closely related to our ability to learn from our failures. Perseverant and resilient people deal more productively with failure.Perseverance and Resilience can be learned. In other words, we can all practice becoming grittier and work on our ability to persevere.

The Link Between Perseverance and Resilience

Various studies have shown that perseverance is an essential quality for success in life (Duckworth, 2016). It often tops aptitude and raw talent and is a more accurate predictor of achievement.Our ability to stick with our tasks, goals, and passions is vital. Persevering entails effort and practice. It also involves our ability to learn from failure and try again.

Importance of Perseverance

Perseverance is an essential quality for success in life. This ancient virtue of fortitude explicitly combines perseverance with courage.

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So if you have talent and good ideas, you are only 1% ahead of the others. The other 99% is pure commitment, repetition, and other things I will discuss later. Perseverance is your ability to keep going even when you fail horribly. It is your grit to show up every day and your need to demonstrate you can do everything you want. And you will do anything to reach that goal. Pretty powerful, don’t you think so?Those people are unstoppable.

What is Grit?

Grit is a superpower you must learn to succeed in life. Some people learn it when they are young, others need to train. This post is for the latter.

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Discipline comes from within. External discipline isn't strong. You need self-discipline. You must decide to be disciplined. Make the decision and commit. This will bring you freedom.

Where does discipline come from?

"How do I get tougher?" Be tougher. "How can I wake up early in the morning?" Wake up early. "How can I work out consistently every day?" Work out consistently every day.

Jocko Willink's methods for success were born in the SEAL Teams, where he spent most of his adult life, enlisting after high school and rising through the ranks to become the commander of the most highly decorated special operations unit of the war in Iraq. Here he describes how he lives that mantra: the mental and physical disciplines he imposes on himself in order to achieve freedom in all aspects of life. Willink includes strategies and tactics for conquering weakness, procrastination, and fear; specific physical training presented in workouts for beginner, intermediate, and advanced athletes; and the best sleep habits and food intake recommended to optimize performance.

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The instant New York Times bestseller! FIND YOUR WILL, FIND YOUR DISCIPLINE--AND YOU WILL FIND YOUR FREEDOM Jocko Willink's methods for success were born in the SEAL Teams, where he spent most of his adult life, enlisting after high school and rising through the ranks to become the commander of the most highly decorated special operations unit of the war in Iraq. In Discipline Equals Freedom, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Extreme Ownership describes how he lives that mantra: the mental and physical disciplines he imposes on himself in order to achieve freedom in all aspects of life. Many books offer advice on how to overcome obstacles and reach your goals—but that advice often misses the most critical ingredient: discipline. Without discipline, there will be no real progress. Discipline Equals Freedom covers it all, including strategies and tactics for conquering weakness, procrastination, and fear, and specific physical training presented in workouts for beginner, intermediate, and advanced athletes, and even the best sleep habits and food intake recommended to optimize performance. Within these pages discover the keys to becoming stronger, smarter, faster, and healthier. There is only one way to achieve true freedom: The Way of Discipline. Read this book and find The Way.

Jocko Willink is an accomplished writer whose work has resonated with readers around the world. Jocko Willink has published several books that explore a range of topics, from fiction to nonfiction, and has received critical acclaim for the ability to weave compelling narratives. Jocko Willink's writing style is known for its depth and authenticity, and has earned quite a loyal following of readers.

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<ol><li>Now, imagine showing up to paint something 5 days a week, without fail, for 3 years straight. </li><li>Try to think of how much you would improve your painting skills just by showing up and practicing. </li><li>Not only that but you’d be damned if you didn’t sell at least a few paintings in the span of those 3 years, right?</li><li>Many people don’t want to put in the work because they don’t think long-term. </li></ol>

Imagine this...

<ol><li>You can’t just wish for something different and not try to develop solutions. </li><li>If you stay passive about it, nothing will happen. </li><li>For many people, the problem is that they either don’t come up with projects, or they do but never settle on one. </li><li>It’s completely fine to start and stop for a while, but eventually, you have to make your mind.</li><li>For me, after a decade of experimenting, I settled on blogging and haven’t looked back for the past 2 years. It’s brought more change to my life than anything I’ve tried before.</li></ol>

You need to be creative

<ol><li>I used to think that all it took to change your life or make progress towards a goal was to get to work and stop being lazy. </li><li>I used to think anybody could do it, but I’m only starting to realise how wrong I was this whole time.</li><li>Not everybody is interested in changing their life, being their own boss, or improving themselves, and that’s fine. </li><li>Change is possible, and people who truly commit can achieve great things. </li><li>But can anyone actually do it, and keep going for years before seeing any sort of results? I’m not sure.</li></ol>

Stick To It

<ol><li>If someone told me they couldn’t get started or had started but didn’t want to show up anymore, my only advice was to stop being a lazy bum and get to work.</li><li>It took me a lot of meditation sessions and working on my compassion to realise that it’s a much deeper-rooted problem than just laziness for a lot of people. </li><li>Steps have to be taken in the right order.</li><li>More often than not, I found people were not at a stage in their life to develop a vision strong enough to build something meaningful. </li><li>It may come later, or it may never come; some people just stop showing up.</li></ol>

You need to show up everyday

<ol><li>When I started blogging, I told myself I would keep at it for 6 months and see where it would take me. </li><li>I wasn’t going to care about the money, the followers, the views, nothing. </li><li>Show up every day, put in the work, put out content, consider this as a job with no salary. </li><li>I saw this as a fun experiment, and 6 months later, I assessed the situation. </li><li>I decided whether or not I could see myself keeping at this for many years, hopefully making some money down the line, but most importantly, working on something I loved and becoming my own boss. </li><li>The answer was: 100% YES.</li></ol>

When I started blogging...

“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” — Friedrich Nietzsche<ol><li>Without a purpose, you can’t have a rock-solid plan, and a rock-solid plan is the best way to maximise your chance of success in life.</li><li>When it comes to figuring out what you want to do, the most important thing is to experiment constantly.</li><li>It’s never too late to change, but it’s 100% crucial to experiment to find what you love to do and why you want to change.</li></ol>

You need to know what you want in life

<ol><li>The failures and setbacks you’ll face during your experimentation process (your search for what you want to do) will be nothing in comparison to the ones you’ll face once you pick your thing and start working on it.</li><li>80% of people give up anywhere between the first and third obstacle. 90% will give up between the third and the fifth, and only 1% will remain at the tenth obstacle. </li><li>Why? Often because the project was not a good fit for them in the first place. </li><li>If you pick something you truly want to do and are passionate about, it will be a lot easier to push through when things get tough.</li></ol>

You need to get back up 100 times

<ol><li>Pain is temporary, and most of the roadblocks you experienced today, this week or this month won’t matter 10 years down the line. </li><li>99% of people fail to understand this and tend to only live in the present moment.</li><li>Imagine picking up a project you love right now, something you truly want to do and are passionate about, like painting. </li><li>The very important part is that for now, you shouldn’t take into consideration the financial aspect of it. </li><li>You have to not care about the money painting will make you, only show up and do the work.</li></ol>

You need to think long term

I don’t drink alcohol and have never been drunk in my life. As a teenager, every time people asked me why, I never really knew what to answer, which made it seem even weirder. “This kid doesn’t have…

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Discipline is like the gym. We need resistance to grow, and that growth will depend on the resistance we apply. We should start small, make your bed, do the laundry, tidy your room, read a page, don’t eat that chocolate bar, walk at lunch, put down your phone, go to bed earlier, wake up earlier etc. Any time we feel the little voice within calling us to resist an action or validate a decision not to do something, this is an opportunity to develop resilience. That is the resistance you need to grow.Once we’re aware of it, we can notice it.When we notice it, we can catch it.When we catch it, we can use it as a tool for growth.

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