You change your modus operandi and sustain your perseverance by willfully and methodically focusing your thoughts and energy on the goal at hand.
The former manipulation disrupts the abstraction or mental flexibility and the latter sustained attention or perseverance both of which are the major functions of the prefrontal system.
Sisu is an untranslatable Finnish term that blends resilience, tenacity, persistence, determination, perseverance and sustained, rather than momentary, courage: the psychological strength to ensure that regardless of the cost or the consequences, what has to be done will be done.
"The Chinese have perseverance".
Once she began smartly mixing up the pace in the second set, and began ignoring the pain of a blister on her right foot, the same perseverance that sustained her through a childhood she has referred to as cruel helped her generate a moment of unsuppressed bliss.
When asked what she learned from her parents that carried and sustained her, Dr. Rice said perseverance, optimism and self-reliance.
After much research, Duckworth theorized that people who achieve great success -- those at the top of their fields -- have the qualities of dogged perseverance and sustained passion toward long-term goals.
But the tradition has sustained thanks to the devotion and perseverance of Bill Reynolds, publisher of The Journal of the American West, Ranch & Reata.
That's testament not only to sustained excellence but also an incredible adaptability, stamina, competitiveness and perseverance, qualities to which we tend to grow complacent or undersell.
Soul Food represented the perennial perseverance and joy of black families held together by the women who raised them, who made the food that sustained them, and who told the stories that offered them solace.
