In Efremova's dictionary
Emphasis: stubborn adj.
- Correlating in meaning with a noun: emphasis, perseverance, associated with them.
- Serving for emphasis (.
- trans. Persistent, persistent and unyielding in the pursuit of something, in the implementation of something.
- decomposition Not deviating from his own; stubborn.
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- Continuing for a long time, becoming permanent; unceasing, persistent.
- Continuous, unchanging.
Differences between persistence and stubbornness
Perseverance and stubbornness should not be confused or equated. A persistent person clearly understands what goal is in front of him and purposefully moves towards it. A stubborn person often has no goal at all, and his actions and decisions are chaotic. For this reason, persistence is good for getting results, but stubbornness often leads people into dead ends and makes them look stupid.
Despite the fact that many people confuse these two concepts, everyone intuitively feels the difference between persistence and stubbornness. Therefore, everyone is usually drawn to purposeful and persistent individuals, while stubborn people pretty soon begin to irritate others. It is advisable for each person to take this into account, making sure that his persistence does not turn into meaningless stubbornness.
In the dictionary D.N. Ushakova
STABILITY, persistent, persistent; persistent, persistent, persistent. 1. Being a stop, serving for a stop (special). Anchor point. Thrust pole. Thrust bolt. Thrust bearing. 2. Persistent, firm and unyielding in the pursuit of something, in the implementation of something. “She was proud, tenacious and beautiful.” Nekrasov. Stubborn struggle. Provide stubborn resistance to the enemy. Persistently (adv.) to achieve one's own goal. | Stubborn and stubborn. A persistent person. To stubbornly (adv.) disagree. 3. Persistent, becoming permanent, not passing away. Persistent cough. A persistent habit. Persistent pain. | Continuous, unchanging. “With persistent thoughtfulness I looked into the garden through the half-open door.” A. Turgenev. “Marianna stubbornly (adv.) looked at her plate.” A. Turgenev. In the summer the north winds blew persistently (adv.).
Tenacity and perseverance
Tenacity and perseverance are very important and very strong personal qualities that help a person achieve success and win. You can even say that if you are persistent and persistent enough, then this is already a great success for you, and you can rightfully be proud of it. However, in most cases, many people are not persistent and persistent enough, they often give in to difficulties and thereby deprive themselves of the opportunity to achieve more in their lives; they give up, retreat and lose, instead of going to the end and winning. Therefore, perseverance and perseverance must be developed; these qualities should be present in every self-respecting person. This article, dear readers, will help you do this. Be sure to read it to the end, and you will learn how to become more persistent and persistent, and therefore a stronger spirit and a person adapted to life, ready to always go to the bitter end. And by becoming strong in spirit, you will certainly achieve great success in life.
So, first, let's find out what perseverance is and what perseverance is. Perseverance is a personality quality that represents a person’s ability to achieve specific close goals, despite any obstacles and failures; it is loyalty to one’s close goal, no matter what. That is, when a person confronts the failures that arise in his life “here and now,” he shows perseverance. Persistent people are resistant to interference, they are able to show character in solving the problems currently facing them. For example, you need to do something important for you at the moment, or in the very near future. This is not an easy matter, it is associated with various difficulties and problems that you do not know how to solve. And if you doubt that you should do this thing at all, if you do not want to bring it to the end due to various difficulties associated with this matter, and perhaps even do not dare to start doing it, then you lack perseverance. But if you are a persistent person, then you will do this at all costs, regardless of the problems and difficulties that you encounter. At the same time, I draw your attention, dear readers, that being a persistent person and doing your job, you do not try to do it in only one single way, in which you constantly fail, you must look for other options in order to find the right option, which will allow you to succeed in your business. Here it is very important not to confuse perseverance with stubbornness, because stubbornness does not allow a person to be flexible when solving certain problems facing him; stubbornness forces a person to step on the same rake, while perseverance forces a person to look for an opportunity to circumvent this rake. Thus, a persistent person makes volitional efforts and overcomes the difficulties encountered in order to realize a specific, close goal that is important to him. A person makes one attempt after another, tries again and again, over and over again to do what he needs, but at the same time all this happens in the here and now.
Now let's turn our attention to perseverance and see what it is. Persistence is a personality quality that allows a person to pursue distant, long-term goals, the achievement of which requires great effort and patience for failure. Perseverance is manifested in a person’s ability to overcome life’s obstacles over a long period of time. A persistent person, without any doubt or hesitation, goes towards his intended goal and does not give up on it because of various difficulties and obstacles that may arise on his way. That is, unlike perseverance, perseverance requires from a person not a one-time, but a systematic manifestation of willpower in order to bring a distant goal to life. For example, you want to get rich, and for this you need to complete not one, not two, or even ten tasks, but as many as necessary in order to achieve this goal. That is, you need to get a good education, you need to learn about how people become rich in general, you need to make as many attempts as it takes to succeed in this or that business that allows you to earn a lot of money, for example, in the same business. In other words, to achieve a distant goal, you need to solve many different problems, while achieving close goals, to achieve which, as mentioned above, you need to be persistent. Thus, it turns out that by showing persistence in order to achieve close goals and thereby moving towards a distant, more significant goal, a person shows persistence.
Well, now that you and I know what perseverance is and what perseverance is, let's think about why we need these qualities, what benefits we can get from them. We all have some desires in life, we all want something and we all need something. In order to realize our desires and satisfy our needs, we must make certain efforts, we must show willpower, make certain sacrifices, work in order to achieve something and receive something, because nothing in this life is done by itself. It does nothing good for us unless we do good for ourselves. Without perseverance, without perseverance, it is difficult to achieve success in this life, it is difficult to form a strong, unbending character, and it is absolutely impossible to be a winner, because these qualities are absolutely necessary for victory. Our desires require perseverance and perseverance from us, and life itself requires these qualities from us, because without them we cannot even feel fully human. We cannot, honestly, call ourselves a person, that very person whose possibilities are practically limitless, if in life we are not persistent enough and persistent enough, if we bend at the first blow of the wind. Man is a strong being, capable of achieving his goals under any circumstances. It is human nature to swim against the current and arrive where he wants to go. In addition, we must understand that life consists of a huge number of problems and mistakes that we will definitely constantly encounter. And if we do not learn to be persistent and persistent enough, we will not be able to cope with even minor problems and will not be able to achieve the positive result we need through mistakes. And then we will never receive complete satisfaction from our life, because we will not achieve anything significant in it. We should not give in to problems and should not be afraid of mistakes if we want to be happy, because it is impossible to hide from problems and mistakes in this world. They, as I already said, are part of our lives. So it’s not just people with big, ambitious goals and objectives that require qualities like perseverance and perseverance, we all need them, regardless of our views and plans for life.
And now that we have found out why we need perseverance and perseverance, we should ask the next very important question - how to develop these qualities in ourselves, how to develop perseverance and how to develop perseverance? This is a very serious question indeed. After all, it’s one thing to agree that we need to develop certain qualities in ourselves, and quite another thing to develop them. Sometimes, understanding and agreement alone are not enough; a burning desire based on emotions is also required, which will force a person to do something that he should do. And in order to become a stubborn and persistent person, we will need to do a lot, because these qualities are not inherent in many people, which means that it is not so easy to develop them in ourselves. But you and I will definitely do this, we will show perseverance and perseverance in order to develop perseverance and perseverance. How do you like this approach?
How is this possible, you ask? How can you develop certain qualities in yourself using these same qualities? After all, it is impossible to develop what you don’t have. You can develop what you already have, but what you don’t have, you must first acquire, and only then develop it. But the fact of the matter, friends, is that every person has the qualities we are considering. And to develop them, you just need to awaken these qualities in yourself and then use them. We are all alive only because our ancestors showed enough persistence and perseverance for their and our survival. These qualities are in our genes; we do not need to acquire them. Let's find out what needs to be done below.
To become a stubborn and persistent person, a person with character, patience and endurance, disciplined, purposeful and hardworking, you need to decide why you need all these qualities. That is, you must pay attention to your desires, needs and everything that you don’t like in life for one reason or another, that gives you discomfort, that you want to fix. You must experience an urgent need for the qualities you need in order to change something in this life, in order to get what you want and satisfy all your needs. You see, our brain doesn’t really like to work, and neither does our whole body, so we have to convince it that we really need to do what we are going to do so that it will force us to do it the way we need it. The brain tends to doubt the need to do something difficult for our body and for it in particular, so it often asks itself the question - why do I need this? Why should we, you, show persistence in something? Why should you be persistent in achieving some goal that is important to you? Why do you need all this? Explain to yourself the necessity of what you are going to do before you do it, so that you understand what and why you want to leave, and what and why you want to come to. You need to understand what you will get if you are a persistent and persistent person, if you strain, force, and control yourself.
By the way, are you even going to do something and strive for something in this life? Do you want to change yourself and/or your life? If not, then you really don’t need to be stubborn and persistent; if everything suits you, then there’s no need to strain yourself, let everything remain as it is. Do you understand what I'm talking about? You need a goal in life, a serious, ambitious goal. Set a goal for yourself, such a goal that just the thought of it gives you goosebumps, so that it excites you very much. Then, explain to yourself - why do you need to achieve this goal? Don't look at other people, think with your own head about what you need and why. There is no need to doubt the possibility of achieving this goal, leave all these little things for later, just give yourself a clear answer - why do you need to achieve this goal? It is very important that your goal is very specific, measurable, time-bound and that it is expressed in positive terms. Well, I think it’s clear that objectively your goal should be achievable, that is, it should not be absurd, it should be within the limits of human capabilities, otherwise over time you may actually have doubts about the possibility of achieving it. In general, try to do without any nonsense, like the desire to become God.
After you define your goal and answer the question - why do you need to achieve it, you will need to figure out how to achieve it. And for this you will need to develop a detailed plan for its implementation. When you develop this plan, it is very important that it describes a variety of methods for performing the required work, which in turn, if possible, should not be too boring and routine, so that it does not cause you to become tired of monotonous, exhausting work. I repeat, your plan should be as flexible as possible, so that this or that task that you have to solve at one time or another can be solved in different ways. Consider different options for your actions in different situations, accept the possibility of making all sorts of mistakes, think through in advance the situations in which you will fail in something, so that you accept both mistakes and failures as part of your plan. Don’t try to create an ideal plan in which everything will go without a hitch; mistakes and failures must be taken into account by you and you must be mentally prepared for them.
Friends, it is very important to be able to break big goals into small goals, that is, break a long road into small sections of the path that you can complete. If necessary, you can think through each subsequent step so as not to stray from the intended path and not stop moving. Knowing the difference between perseverance and perseverance, you must understand that for small goals you will need perseverance, but to go all the way from start to finish, allowing you to achieve your main, big goal, you will need perseverance. Therefore, break down all your goals into actions that, thanks to the perseverance that this approach will develop in you, one might say, automatically, you will be able to carry out. You and I understand that a whole elephant can be eaten only in pieces, therefore, it is in pieces, and not in pieces, and especially not whole, that we should eat it. In general, don’t take on everything at once and don’t race your horses, trying to get everything done as quickly as possible. Endurance and patience are what you need so as not to rush and fuss, and they, in turn, do not require any effort from us; rather, on the contrary, in order to manifest these qualities we must remain calm and relaxed.
Friends, it is very important for a person to be active, so as not only not to lose faith in his goal and thereby not extinguish his desire to achieve it, but also not to allow his negative qualities, such as laziness, fear, uncertainty, irresponsibility, to take over on the positive qualities you develop, that is, perseverance, perseverance, patience, discipline, responsibility and other useful qualities. Our brain and our body, just give them the opportunity to relax, and then they will try in every possible way to convince us not to disturb them. Because our body and the brain that belongs to it, as I already said, do not like to work, at least too much. Relaxation is harmful for us, because we get used to good things too quickly, and we always need to know moderation in everything. But, unfortunately for many of us, we often do not know this very measure, and therefore, having relaxed, we really do not like to tense up again. So Monday is not a hard day - this Sunday is too easy a day. In general, do not allow yourself to relax too much and too often, otherwise you will forget about your goal and the qualities that you develop in yourself while striving for it.
It is very important, please pay your attention to this, dear readers, while strengthening your character, by developing perseverance and perseverance, to be able not to react to the negative environment in which you may live. You must be immune to critical moods, but they will definitely be there. Very often our relatives, friends, acquaintances begin to show us their doubts that we have chosen the right path in life. I don't want to say that you should ignore them completely, but sometimes it can be useful to listen to the advice of other people who, from the outside, can see what we do not see, and whose experience may be qualitatively different from our experience. But if these people cut your wings, if they don’t help you but hinder you from flying, then just don’t take them seriously. Your immunity to critical moods is your indifferent attitude towards those from whom these moods come. Do you understand what I'm talking about? If you don’t want to get infected, don’t contact sick people, or at least try not to notice them. There are no people for you who do not see you as a strong personality, make yourself such an attitude and stick to it. They all know how to do it and what is best, but you look at them and there is nothing to be impressed with. The people who always criticize us the most are those who do nothing themselves, don’t want to do anything, and therefore have achieved nothing in their lives. How can you take seriously those who find your activity like a bone in their throat? The answer is no. You don't have to perceive them in any way. Just do your job and ignore destructive and unfounded criticism. Let them all criticize you, blame you, mock you, let them put a spoke in your wheels, there’s nothing wrong with that. The abundance of criticism addressed to you means that you are not standing still, that you are moving, and people are noticing you.
It is important for you not to retreat or give up under any circumstances, even if sometimes your persistence will resemble stubbornness, which involves a person committing the same unsuccessful actions. The main thing, friends, is that you yourself feel like a strong, unbending person who cannot be broken morally. Therefore, try to always complete all the things you start, in order to prove to yourself that you have a fighting character, that you are a strong personality, so that you can fight as long as you have the strength. Bring your affairs, if not to a victorious conclusion, if this is impossible in principle, then at least to their logical conclusion, so that it is clear to you that you did everything you could. A person’s consciousness absorbs a certain part of his everyday experience, and the subconscious absorbs everything, and if it becomes a habit for you to start and not finish things, then you will set yourself up for the wave of an incapable loser. Remember, friends, a persistent person never gives up and always keeps his word to himself!
I would also like to add one more thing. I understand that all people are different and live in different conditions, sometimes a person can live in such a degenerative or overly aggressive environment for him that no attempt to develop strong qualities in himself can be crowned with success. In such cases, a person may need outside help, which he can receive both from various specialists whose work is related to people, for example, from psychologists, and from good friends. Without this help, some people, unfortunately, are unable to change themselves and their lives; they are unable to make themselves strong.
I will be glad to lend my helping hand to you, friends. The main thing is that you do not lose faith that you, like many other successful people, can and will definitely become a persistent and persistent person in achieving any of your goals. It is important that you understand that you can, and I believe you must, succeed in life. And not just live it as it happens. If you can help yourself, great, all I can do is praise you and be happy for you. If you can’t, it’s okay, don’t worry, seek help from me or other specialists you trust, and become stronger with their help. You can develop any qualities in yourself; everyone can do this.
