When Persistence Needs Reinvention
Another in the series of posts inspired by my second read of Derek Sivers’ Anything You Want:
Success doesn’t come from banging on the same locked door forever. It comes from improving, tweaking, reinventing until something clicks.
That reminder is important for someone like me, with notebooks and hard drives full of half-built projects. The temptation is always to push harder at what isn’t working, convinced that persistence alone will make it land. But sometimes, persistence looks like stepping back, reshaping, trying again in a different form.
I’ve done that with ideas for books, events, and even relationships. Some needed to be abandoned completely. Others needed a shift in timing, framing, or format before they found traction.
The trick is not mistaking stubbornness for persistence. Stubbornness keeps pushing the same version. Persistence keeps improving until the idea actually works.