14. Be Wise in the Course of Persisting
Those who doesn’t persist, gain nothing.
Those who persists without wisdom, may lose everything.
Those who persist with wisdom have everything to gain.
The key here is to allow the pathway that you are forging to be altered as you monitor your progress, or its lack. Skilful downhill skiers have this to a fine art, so that it becomes intuitive. The difference between winning and losing is sometimes just a hair’s breadth, and successful people know how to trim their direction to gain that small, cumulative difference.
Real wisdom only comes in the context of relationship, as wisdom is something you gain by learning with and through others.
Even the most successful people have whole networks and teams of people helping them. These invisible armies are very rarely noted or are noticable, but know that consultation, (‘trimming’) is a necessary part of vision. Persistence comes to those who make a habit of ‘failing often‘, but real wisdom amplifies the effectiveness of the pathway being forged in pursuit of the goals you desire.
So seek counsel in others who you know have trodden such a similar pathway of wisdom for themselves, and be constantly alert for the rocks to avoid on your journey.
