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Paul Graham:The Right Kind of Stubborn, Excerpt 6

Paul Graham《The Right Kind of Stubborn》· The Right Kind of Stubborn · Action · Leadership · Human nature

Considering what it's made of, it's not surprising that the right kind of stubbornness is so much rarer than the wrong kind, or that it gets so much better results. Anyone can do obstinacy. Indeed, kids and drunks and fools are best at it. Whereas very few people have enough of all five of the qualities that produce the right kind of stubbornness, but when they do the results are magical.

Source: https://paulgraham.com/persistence.html
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