Hey, hey, hey, everybody. How you doing? I said
I'd be back for another podcast on morals. This
is Neogentrix on Food for Thought, Thoughts If
It Were You. So the moral we're going to cover
today is perseverance. While a lot of people
don't really consider this to be one, it is a
moral that I grew up having that my parents basically
taught me when I was younger. To persevere means
to have steadfastness in doing something despite
the difficulty or delay in achieving success,
no matter how hard it is. Okay? And this also
goes hand in hand with procrastination. I'm not
going to cover procrastination today, but I just
figured I'd go ahead and mention it. Okay? Perseverance,
perseverance, perseverance. Well, first off,
what is perseverance? It's the ability to keep
going, doing something, despite all the obstacles.
Typically, when people are confronted with something
that is too difficult or too hard, they quit.
It's said that people who persevere show steadfastness
in doing something despite how hard it is or
how long it might take to reach that goal. Sometimes
it's called grit, is the greater leveler. But
you don't have to... Be the wealthiest in the
world or have the most friends or be the smartest
kid in class. You persevere, you can reach your
goals despite anything that happens. You can
help inspire perseverance by allowing kids to,
you know, experience failure. You know, in a
safe, supported environment, of course. You know,
when kids need to recover from a setback, you
know, think their way through a challenge or
try again, they develop this. Even us as adults
need to take some, you know, I guess you can
say... We need to take some advice from the very
children that we have in front of us. As despite
no matter how hard some things get, kids just
don't know when to give up. They don't quit until
they just can't go anymore or they hurt themselves.
Let me reference something here. People in Forbes,
okay? They don't end up in the Forbes. uh magazine
or on their web page just because they just because
you know just because they're rich or whatnot
no they have to persevere through some bad times
to get to where they're at to become what they
are and who they are now to end up there okay
thomas jefferson once said we should uh when
we see ourselves in a situation which must be
endured and gone through it's best to make up
our minds to it okay you know meet it with firmness
firmness yeah I have to remember. And accommodate
everything to it in the best way practical. This
lessens the evil while fretting and fuming only
serves to increase your own torment. Basically
means keep at it, but at a steady pace in a way
that is most applicable. In this way, you don't
infuriate yourself and just jump the gun and
do something which will in turn hurt you. Without
perseverance, talent is a barren bed, okay? It's
just a common proverb that I grew up knowing,
okay? How do I put it? Failure is only postponed
success. As long as courage coaches ambition,
the habit of persistence is the habit of victory,
okay? Perseverance goes hand in hand with persistence,
all right? Whatever necessity lays upon the,
you know, endure whatever it commands, you know?
Wolfgang von Goethe had mentioned this in one
of his conferences that I went to a couple years
ago. And if that's not good enough for you, how
about something from George Washington? To persevere
in one's duty and be silent is the best answer
to Callum. Basically, to persevere... is to keep
going despite anything that happens. And with
this, you know, this one applies to not only
anything that you do as far as your job or your
lifestyle, this also has a lot to do with the
things that you do and all the other morals that
I will be discussing, don't worry, in the future.
You have to have perseverance to see through
self, to have self -esteem. You first have to
persevere through the bad times. You have to
be able to stay the course no matter what happens.
A lot of people are unable to do this. Okay.
It's a very, very tough world out there. And,
you know, it's not easily, how do I put it? It's
not easily attainable for anything. Okay. Is
it a personal trait? Not necessarily. Okay. It's
argued to be a trait, but you know, it enables
a person to keep going and accomplish a goal.
Okay. Which brings up the question, is it a skill?
No, it's not. However. For those who don't have
any perseverance whatsoever, it can be acquired
as such. And this applies to a lot of people.
Continued effort in anything, despite failure,
despite anything else, is considered perseverance.
On that note, having self -esteem can help with
perseverance. If you believe you can do anything,
no matter what it is, you'll be able to persevere.
This is part one to this. I will pick up later
with the second part to this. In this first piece,
all I wanted to cover is what is perseverance
and a couple of quotes on it. In the next piece,
I'll cover how to actually use this in practical
use every day.