Chapter 17 If you don't know patience, you will never succeed

We often hear such famous sayings as "sincerity leads to gold and stone" and "success can be achieved through patience", and we also meet many people who shout the slogan "I believe everyone can succeed".In this day and age where a single risk can mean the difference between life and death, whether it's winning the lottery or hitting a record sale, the slogan sounds very old-fashioned.Moreover, patience is something that is easy to say but very difficult to do.Patience and hard work are both abilities.It's not that patience is hard to do, which means that the phrase "everyone can do it" loses its meaning.However, if you want to achieve your desired goals, patience is one of the indispensable elements. Therefore, even people who are naturally straightforward must cultivate good patience.Patience includes two meanings, one is "endure" and the other is "continue to do it".The former means helplessly bearing one's own pain.When someone insults you, although you really want to give the other person a slap in the heart, you will still resist the urge and pretend you didn't hear it. This is "endurance".The latter means that they will not succumb to various obstacles and continue to do their own work without stopping.Women can "bear it" better than men, but they are less good at "keep it going".However, the quality necessary for successful people is not "endurance", but "continue to do it".Women who think they are very patient but always fail to succeed must have misunderstood the meaning of patience. "Enduring" is exactly what those unfortunate women mentioned above do best.They think that trying new things is worse than enduring pain, which is the outstanding performance of endurance.If you want to achieve the life you want, you should develop the ability to "keep doing things".So, how should this new endurance be developed?