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Persistence is five qualities combined (energy, imagination, resilience, good judgement and focus on a goal) and only resembles obstinacy in that it keeps you from giving up.

Drawn from what Paul Graham said

Subjectsenergydiscipline
What this subject means

discipline Doing the work when you do not feel like it: whether showing up is the whole secret, or systems and enjoyment beat willpower.

On the topicIs discipline the answer?under our view: Persistence is not obstinacy, and part of it is knowing when to quit

What Paul Graham actually said

  1. Paul Graham Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
    Five distinct qualities — energy, imagination, resilience, good judgement, and focus on a goal — combine to produce a phenomenon that seems a bit like obstinacy in the sense that it causes you not to give up.

    Where this was said

    ↗The Right Kind of Stubbornpaulgraham.com

    1 Jul 2024

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