Without Tenacity, Talent And Luck Are Useless

Reaching a dream, achieving a goal or achieving a vital purpose does not always depend on luck. True heroes have the mastery of patience, a doctorate in tenacity, and the virtue of persistence. Because whoever believes otherwise is wrong: you have to fight for what you want and whoever doesn’t do not deserve what you want.

At present, there are many sociologists and philosophers who warn us of something very concrete: we are immersed in the culture of the lack of effort, of the absence of tenacity. To justify it, they argue that we live in a present governed by immediate gratification, where social networks or the consumerist society make us believe that there is a quick and easy path to success.

Although it is true that at a certain time in our life it can feed the belief that all dreams have shortcuts or short paths, there always comes a moment when reality opens our eyes with a jug of cold water. That moment in our life cycle is like a turning point, a decisive and decisive crossroads.

Psychological tenacity, often expressed as resilience, is the best strategy we can apply in these cases. We are facing a personal growth tool where multiple emotional and cognitive processes converge in which to invest time and effort. What we can obtain from it has no limits. We suggest you delve into this useful and enriching topic.

Adversity and intellectual tenacity

 On the other hand, and according to Simon Sinek himself, to this are added other dimensions that further intensify this social and psychological reality: addiction to social networks, low self-esteem, little resistance to frustration and lack of patience and tenacity.

Now, it is clear that there are many personal differences among our young people. There are persevering, successful, tenacious and also those who join his universe of passivity. However, there is a fact that admits little replication: today’s society now demands different skills than just a few years ago; skills that we all –  young and not so young –  have to have developed to some extent if we want to be competitive.

. According to a work published in the journal “Current Directions in Psychological Science”,  adversity is that vital challenge that sooner or later pushes all of us to develop new coping strategies.

It is that bump in our vital path where we open our gaze more to put aside our daily environments, our comfort zone and defeatism. They are moments in which there is only one type of answer: be brave.

Here’s how to put it into practice.

The dimensions of the virtuous mind

We understand the virtuous mind as that mind in which a set of psychological processes take place that allow us to be tenacious and skillful in all our environments to invest in our own human potential. These would be the main points to achieve it:

• We must learn to develop a flexible, open and intuitive mental approach. Something like this implies putting aside that rigid mental focus where there is resistance to change, where adaptation to the environment is poor and where one is not able to see their own mistakes or limitations.

• On the other hand, another mental approach that characterizes a part of the population is what is known as the “liquid mind”. It is one that is defined as being fickle, changeable, depersonalized and dependent only on external stimuli without delving into one’s own values ​​and an internal locus of control.

• The virtuous mind invests in its own self-esteem and self-concept, it knows that the lack of self-love is a way of self-destruction.

• Tenacity is practiced daily, it does not know of breaks when there is a clear purpose, and in turn, it does not give in to the pressures of the environment, to the comments of others.

• A tenacious and virtuous mind is also a creative mind. Creativity requires inner calm and outer openness. In addition, he knows how to apply appropriate perceptual filters to find sources of inspiration and doors of opportunity.

To conclude, beyond talent and beyond luck, personal tenacity is above all. It does not matter that at one point in our lives we feel stuck, sunk in the quicksand of fear, failure or uncertainty. .

Let’s put this value into practice.

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