If you dont put anything into it, you wont get anything out. I like Jacob Riiss illustration of this truth. He says, When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. We must remember this. Everything we do now affects our future.
Perseverance is a powerful tool.
It is my guess, though, that each of us has perseverance, for we are here today. Perhaps we approached our education with perseverance but are now afraid of facing the future. It is not uncommon for mankind to be afraid of failure. Duffy Daugherty said, Im not afraid of losing. I just dont want to be there when it happens.