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Persistence and Growth | Delaney Brinkley | TEDxYouth@GrandJunction


persistence is a simple moment time
whether it’s a split second or an entire
year persistence is a moment between
billion of billions of moments in your
life that you get to decide who you are
persistence is a time work halfway opens
up for you to not give up on what you’re
doing
persistence is something that we all
so what is persistence me everyone has a
different meaning whether it’s not
giving up or something much cheaper yes
they are on this same general area but
yet they vary in very many ways so I bet
everyone in this world has a different
definition for it but I’m going to give
you just a few so one of them is abstain
refusing to give up are let go another
one is insistently repetitive and then
there’s never giving up or as my teacher
likes to call it positive stubbornness
when people think of stubbornness they
think of someone not wanting to do
something very easily it means that
you’re not wanting to do it with ease so
someone has to push you to do it and but
when you add that positive on to it it
makes you be like I’m gonna keep trying
and I’m not gonna stop if someone says
come on maybe we should just leave and
we should not try anymore that depart
and not gives you the right to say no
I’m gonna keep trying until I get it and
it’s as easy as opening a pickle jar I
know I sound crazy I’m talking about
food in the middle of a presentation I
know I don’t judge me but I may be a
little bit hungry man yes this does have
something to do with it have any of you
ever had trouble opening something I bet
all of us have whether it’s actually
opening something or it’s doing
something completely different
but I know that we’ve all had trouble
especially me now we need to realize
that we can make it harder than it seems
I’ve seen big huge bodybuilders trying
to open up pickles are giving up and
smashing it on the ground now yes that
is a way to get open but then you have
the mess and then the weird pickle juice
and then anything else that goes along
with it
and yes I’ve seen people just be like
okay I’m gonna smash it on the ground I
give up and there’s someone like ok let
me help you and then they just easily
pop it off that’s because they had a
growth mindset they were ready to
actually make it happen we need to
encourage others well we’re lifting
ourselves up and making us feel like we
can do anything we’re pushing others
down when we push others down it causes
a thing called jealousy jealousy is not
a good thing I know I had it one way to
describe jealousy is when you want
something in a terrible way that someone
has and yes you have persistence in you
already but so do they they just know
how to use it and they believe that they
can so if you are able to do something
in a split second that they have been
wanting to do for an entire year that’s
probably gonna make them jealous and yes
jealousy is not a great thing but it
also makes you realize that you are the
reason if someone is on the ground
crying
or if someone is being lifted up and
you’re helping them we need to
understand that we can help them while
helping us so if we are just on the
ground they’re gonna be on the ground
and then the next person because they
had a fixed mindset they were not ready
they did not want to believe in
themselves and other people looking at
that would say I can’t do that either
and before we know it everyone’s pushed
down to the ground no one can do
anything and no one believes in
themselves and tell someone finally does
then it bounces straight back to
everyone else and everyone stands up and
is able to complete something they never
completed before they were able to do
that one thing they have been working on
forever and they loved it now they can
teach ants they can teach other people
how to do it not ancestors because the
answers let’s talk to them how to good
so they could teach their children who
could teach their children and so on and
so forth
so yes persistence is a good thing but
I feel we can all persist and we know
how to use it we need to blossom out and
become flowers in spring and being able
to open up to others and help them while
helping you so yes I talked about the
goals and yes we do need to encourage
others still hungry still hungry but we
need to be all be inspired and we need
to always persist no matter what we’re doing starting now
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