i think one of the most important ingredients that o need to have as you need to have optimism. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. If you believe that you can do something, then you're going to try harder to do it. So ultimately, i think optimism and that fly wheel powers you to not quit what you're working on,. And not quitting is why you can eventually succeed.
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