A short spoken piece on personal grit and perseverance: the speaker describes grit as an essential trait formed through hardship, arguing that enduring pain and tragedy without quitting leads to survival, hope, and eventual positive outcomes.
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That gift that you have to keep going. Like, where did that come from? Grit's one of those things that we all want, but we maybe don't want to have to go through what we have to go through to get grit. Somewhere along my crazy little life when I was young, I just latched on to grit to persevere. There isn't an option of quitting when pain and tragedy strikes. Yeah, you're gonna go through a lot, but you're gonna keep going. Another day is gonna come, and you have the option to make it what you want it to be. I think when you go through something really hard and you make it, you survive, you realize, oh, okay, it was just hard for a bit. But there is light at the end of the tunnel. There is hope. There is, you know, goodness on the other side. If I don't quit.