The single most important personal characteristic named by business people and sports persons as the key to their success, is tenacity. Tenacity is the ability to keep going when the situation seems hopeless and progress difficult. In most sporting fields talent is important but tenacity is essential. No matter what, the tenacious athlete will progress to fulfil his or her potential. In football tenacity will encourage an athlete to train rigorously, it will develop ’match toughness’, that ability to never give up no matter how hopeless the situation may seem to be and it develops a disposition to perform to their utmost ability at all times.
In some individuals tenacity seems to be a natural character, but it can be developed in everybody. A good starting point to develop tenacity is to set long-term goals, develop a routine, focus on the task at hand and actively reject negative thoughts. As the inventor Thomas A. Edison, who knew a thing or two about tenacity, put it:
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.”
Solutions to last blog’s puzzles:
• The numbers in the triangle are 500, 7, 507.
• When the trains meet they are both at exactly the same distance from N.Y.
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