There are many successful people who had nothing back then, but now, they have everything. Today, they are living their dreams because they jumped over those difficulties which were lying in their path of success. While talking about their success we are inevitably talking about their perseverance.
Perseverance means unwavering while doing something despite the hurdles or delay in achieving success. And the best part about perseverance is, it doesn’t require a college degree or any kind of formal training. It is inside you, but you need to have big willpower and patience to invoke the perseverance in you.
Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk are those billionaire names that are carved in the hall of fame because of their constant perseverance. Had they given up their work because of the hurdles, they would just be living their ordinary lives as ordinary human beings.
Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk too had hard times in their life, they failed, they went bankrupt, but most importantly, they never gave up.
“When the whole world says, “Give up,” hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
– Unknown
Successful people have some secret ingredients that help them throughout their journey. One of them is perseverance and perseverance is the key to success.
Perseverance means to keep on going no matter what. Even Mark Zuckerberg had a lawsuit filed against his newly launched social site — Facebook, back then.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra, with whom Zuckerberg once worked while he was on Havard, accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their idea. And this event happened just 6 days after Zuckerberg launched Facebook. And those people continued to attack Zuckerberg in many ways, but, Zuckerberg stood firm. He was always focused on his goals. And today, Facebook has a net worth of more than $500 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg now is one of the most powerful people on this planet. He never stopped putting his efforts on his goals and he never stopped innovating. Later he made his opposition shut their mouth too.
When you work tirelessly in the pursuit to get a victory, you are already halfway through your success. Even the great Muhammad Ali has quoted about perseverance once when he was asked if he liked his training.
“I hated every minute of training, but I said to myself, ‘Don’t quit, suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion.”
– Muhammad Ali
If you have a dream, chase it as Elon Musk does to his next-to-impossible dreams. He did not pop up as a billionaire all at once. You must once go through all these failure stories of Elon Musk:
- He was thrown out from his own company Zip2 even though he was a CEO there.
- The first PayPal product was voted as one of the worst business ideas.
- Again he was thrown away from Paypal when he was on honeymoon.
- He was refused by the Russians twice as he wanted to buy rockets from them to send plants or mice to mars.
- Somehow he found SpaceX, made his own rocket, launched it and it exploded.
- His rockets failed 6 times from 2006 to 2016.
- After his 3rd launch, he was working on electric cars (Tesla) too.
- Both SpaceX and Tesla were on a brisk of bankruptcy in 2008.
- He borrowed money to pay rent.
And now, there is no one who has not heard of Elon Musk. He is the founder of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and SolarCity. He is one of the most inspiring entrepreneurs the world has ever seen. Elon Musk created those market niches which were never explored before. All his achievements were possible only because of the perseverance, patience, and stubbornness inside him.
“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.”
– Elon Musk
Perseverance gives you the confidence to change the impossible into possible. The world has not come to this point of technological advancements because of success only. The history has its own manuscripts of failure stories. Don’t feel frustrated in your failure, get motivated instead. Who knows, maybe that particular failure will drive you to become one of the most renowned people ever.
Be patient, and find that perseverance inside you. Perseverance gives you self-confidence and it heightens your motivation. Focus on your goals. Work on your goals without any excuses. Work with your heads high and don’t get down just because someone criticized you or your work. Always stay inspired and this will lead you to success for sure.
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