Boost your persistence quotient to ensure long-term success

摘要

Have you ever failed so badly at an outcome you set as a boss, employee, parent, significant other or a friend that the thought of doing it again made you feel sick? Many of these failures had nothing to do with knowledge or preparation. Many failures were outside of the control of the people experiencing the failure. Here is one thing I have learned on my journey: there are a lot of pessimistic, smart people who have not had much success in their lives, and it has nothing to do with their IQ. In fact, there was a story shared with me about a 55-year-old gentleman who had an IQ of 120. When asked why he didn't start the business he dreamed about and often shared with others, or why he never got married, he cited the statistics of ALL the failed businesses and marriages that he read about during his research.