If you line up with a bunch of people in a race or trek or journey, and many of the others decide not to start, and some others quit 1/3 the way in, and others quit 1/2 way there, and others decide to quit to go run a different race without finishing this one, you will win.
You weren’t the fastest, or the smartest – you just didn’t quit.
You kept going – farther, and getting better, and learning more about the journey you were on.
In a short-attention span world, grit is more important than ever.
100% Talent is limited, grit is limitless. How far we go is the freedom we have. If that isn’t something to appreciate, I don’t know what is.
I needed to read this today!! Thanks Larry
Can sir Larry janesky appear on the school of hard knocks and do interview with them please. I love your insights on business and life.
Amen! (re: freedom)
I stick with the mission until it’s successful, or I see some overwhelming reason to abandon it. I have a desk plaque that I see every day with the quote from Winston Churchill that says, “Never, never, never give up”. I live by it!
There is a point at which the effort should be terminated which is just as important to know as the grit to stay in the race in the first place.