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Herbert Kaufman - The habit of persistence is the habit of victory · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Welcome to The Daily Quote, the podcast designed to kick start
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  your day in a positive way. I'm your host, Andrew McGivern,
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  and let's jump into today's quote from Herbert Kaufman, who
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  once said the habit of persistence is the habit of
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  victory. Notice what Kaufman doesn't say.
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  He doesn't say talent is the habit of victory.
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  He doesn't say genius or luck or natural ability.
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  He says persistent, and he calls it a habit.
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  That's the key insight. Persistence isn't something you
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  summon up for the big moments. It's something you practice
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  daily until it becomes automatic.
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  Most people think persistence means gritting your teeth and
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  pushing through when things get hard.
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  That's part of it. But that's not the habit part.
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  The habit is showing up when nothing dramatic is happening,
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  when progress is invisible, when nobody's watching, when you
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  don't feel like it. The habit is doing the work.
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  On day 47 of 100 Day Goal, when the excitement is worn off and
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  the finish line still feels impossibly far away.
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  That's when most people quit. Not because the goal is
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  impossible, but because persistence isn't a habit yet.
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  It's still an effort. But for people who've made
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  persistence a habit, Bay, 47 is just Tuesday.
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  They show up because that's what they do, not because they're
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  motivated. Because it's a habit.
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  And here's what Kaufman understood.
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  If you build the habit of persistence, victory becomes
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  inevitable. Not immediate.
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  Inevitable because you will outlast anyone who quits.
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  You will outlast the setbacks. You will outlast your own
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  doubts. Victory doesn't go to the
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  fastest or the smartest, it goes to the one who refuses to stop.
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  And I have first hand experience with this with this very
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  podcast. It was a little bit challenging
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  to do a Daily Show every single day, but now I'm on episode 754.
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  Publishing an episode every day for 754 days sounds like a lot,
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  but once you get in the habit, it's just something that
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  automatically happens at the end of the day.
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  So here's the question. What goal are you pursuing?
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  And have you made persistence a habit yet, or is it still an
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  effort? Because if you can make
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  persistence automatic, victory becomes inevitable.
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  You just have to outlast everything else.
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  That's it for today. I'm Anna McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.