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Stamina Is a Quiet Advantage
lly has a physical and competitive connotation — those with greater stamina can outwork and outlast opponents. While stamina is the ability to sustain focused effort despite pain or discomfort, you should also think of it as the ability to stay true to your values and commitments — to hold fidelity to a worthy purpose — especially when it’s hard to do so.
It’s returning for another go at a problem that has repeatedly turned your mind into oatmeal (the kind with that creepy skin after it’s been left out awhile). Stamina is one of the most universally useful traits you can develop — it’s a more broadly applicable advantage than things that are situationally useful, like strength, intelligence, speed, popularity, motivation, etc. Maybe a smarter, more naturally gifted person can be sporadically brilliant, and solve a tough problem way faster than you.
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