Grit (MoC) - DeveloPassion

# Grit (MoC) ## Overview ## Notes   - [[Consistent execution is powerful]] - [[Decide what you want, and do not stop]] - [[Discipline comes through self-control]] - [[Gradually, then suddenly]] - [[Learning is the ability to not give up]] - [[Metronomes and momentum]] - [[Persistence is key]] - [[Persistence turns impossible dreams into reality]] - [[Productivity is not so much about throughput, but rather about consistency]] - [[Progress is rarely linear]]  ## Quotes   - [[A lot of things that appear impossible, become very doable with the right persistence. If we think something is impossible, we forbid ourselves from even trying]] - [[A man is great not because he hasn't failed. A man is great because failure hasn't stopped him]] - [[All of your dreams are on the other side of pain and difficulty]] - [[An inventor fails 999 times and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots]] - [[Business is like a marathon. The longer you stick around, the less crowded it gets]] - [[Change course, but don’t give up]] - [[Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes, courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying I will try again tomorrow]] - [[Eighty percent of success is showing up]] - [[Eventual success can only come from relentlessly showing up]] - [[Every strike brings me closer to the next home run]] - [[From my experience, the most common trait you will consistently observe in accomplished people is an obsession with completion. Once a project falls into their horizon, they crave almost compulsively, to finish it]] - [[Gamers know that you have to play level 1 over and over again in order to reach level 2]] - [[Grit is to endure the failures and adversity to achieve long term goals]] - [[Hard work is a talent because hard work means that you keep going, you keep fighting]] - [[I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. Where I excel is ridiculous, sickening work ethic]] - [[It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop]] - [[Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity]] - [[Let us run the risk of wearing out rather than rusting out]] - [[Most overnight successes have been a decade in the making]] - [[Most people can stay excited for two or three months. A few people can stay excited for two or three years. But a winner will stay excited for twenty or thirty years... Or as long as it takes to win]] - [[Nobody said being great would be easy]] - [[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time]] - [[Resolve means promising yourself you will never give up]] - [[Success comes to those who don't stop]] - [[Success is demanding but it is worth it. You have to want to succeed]] - [[Successful people do what unsuccessful people are not willing to do. Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better]] - [[Talent and potential mean nothing if you can’t consistently do things when you don’t feel like doing them]] - [[The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs…one step at a time]] - [[The entrepreneurs who end up succeeding are those who didn't give up. This doesn't mean they were stubborn. No, they adapted, they pivoted, they experimented. But they kept going]] - [[The most useful form of patience is persistence. Patience implies waiting for things to improve on their own. Persistence implies keeping your head down and continuing to work when things take longer than you expect]] - [[The paradox of entrepreneurship. In order to get started, you need to hate repetition enough to take the leap. In order to win, you need to love repetition enough to never stop]] - [[There are no easy paths that are also worthwhile]] - [[Water dripping day by day wears the hardest rock away]] - [[What looks like success is often just patience]] - [[Writing online requires an unrelenting commitment to consistency]] - [[You don’t control the mountain, only the climb]] - [[You fall to the level of your systems and habits]] - [[You make your own luck if you stay at it long enough]]