Tag: perseverance

All the articles with the tag "perseverance".

• On Confidence (1/3)

  6 Jan, 2021

  The School of Life suggests that enduring confidence comes from recognizing that hardship, frustration, and slow progress are normal features of meaningful work rather than signs of personal failure.

• Wallace

  21 Dec, 2020

  In Real Life, Brandon Taylor portrays the psychological weight of academic power dynamics, where harsh criticism and conditional validation compel Wallace to suppress humiliation and continue working relentlessly.

• The White Flag.

  10 Jul, 2011

  Twelve-year job exit without the next gig lined up—pairing acceptance with POW research on open-ended endurance and abandoning timeline fantasies that fed resentment.

• Dual Connection.

  2 Apr, 2011

  Times story on Manning Marable finishing his Malcolm X biography on the eve of death underscores a life’s work of reinvention—and publishing fate interrupting the author before the tour.

• Recalibration II.

  12 Apr, 2010

  Motivation is not always healthy—chasing the wrong goal (more school) delayed launching Big Generator until the mismatch was named.

• Recalibration I.

  1 Apr, 2010

  Atlantic reading on jobless eras and Twenge’s Generation Me reframes my 2010 growth around perseverance, not empty confidence.