Generally speaking, we think only a few people really persevere, because the meaning of this idiom is not clear. What kind of behavior can be called persistence rather than giving up? How long can it be called a constant? It is not pointed out here. China's culture is profound and meaningful. However, on the other hand, you can also say that it is ambiguous and has no practical guidance. This old idiom seems to tell the essence of things. They are hidden in the text. You didn't succeed because you didn't do it well and didn't master it. You see, how simple it is to sum up a person's failure. He just didn't stick to it. It sounds profound, because you can't explore it carefully, and you can't explain what persistence means. In fact, mystification has always been a major drawback of China's language and culture. This mysterious and ridiculous word, like a panacea, can be used to describe everything, but it can't solve the problem at all, because it can't clearly point out the key points. Of course, people don't know how to do it, and they don't know how to define a certain behavior with it. Now I'll take it apart and make it completely clear.
What do you mean, stick to it? Let's talk about persistence first Do you insist on fishing for three days and drying the net for two days? You can say scream or you can sayno. Why? If you fish for three days, sell it the next day, and take a day off, you will dry the net in these two days, just enough to catch fish. Is this wrong? That's right. Why can't this be called persistence? If you are the owner of a fishery factory, you can work one day out of five days and rest the other four days. This is also called insisting on fishing. For example, Sugar held up his hand for a semester, but he persisted. The rest of the class only lasted a few days, and no one else did. So what is "persistence"? Do you do something repeatedly with a certain frequency? Have you never slacked off? Not exactly. In my opinion, the essence of persistence is that you have designed a plan for yourself, and you follow this plan, rain or shine, which is called persistence. Any other behavior that does not follow the plan can no longer be called persistence. For example, if you plan to fish for five days and dry the net for three days, then if you really do it, even "fishing for three days and drying the net for two days" is also called persistence. If you plan to do high-intensity fitness every 1 1 smallpox, then always keep "one day in the sun and ten days in the cold" is also called persistence. Persist in sleeping for a long time every day and getting up from 6 to 9 every day. These are called persistence. Persistence depends on whether you follow the plan made in advance, and there is no need to do a repetitive thing constantly.
Besides, what do you mean unchanged? Is it constant to persist for an hour? A month? What about ten years? You can call it constant, or you can say it is not constant. China's word formation is so rough that it doesn't specify how you call it horizontal, so it can attribute all your failures to your failure to meet its requirements. You said you persisted for ten days, and he said he persisted for eleven days. What a rascal. In a word, this truth is right, and you are wrong and irrefutable. Now I want to expose this unreasonable idiom and the truth based on it, and expose its hidden panacea. In fact, there is no ugly face of dry goods. What is unchangeable? That is, you keep this state according to the requirement of "persistence" mentioned above until you keep it for a predetermined length of time. This is constancy. Other than that, none of them are called constants.
To sum up, perseverance is said in ancient books, and its interpretation changes with the will of authority. Persistence is a subjective word, which can be strong or weak, and any behavior can be called persistence or non-persistence. You hold it in your hand, it's called continuous holding, you put it down, and you call it insisting on combining work and rest and relaxing moderately, which makes sense. Constant is also a subjective word. Ten days is the same, and ten years is the same. In ancient times, only senior officials and academic authorities could quantify with their own will, and you had no right to speak. I pointed out that the contemporary usage of this word is based on planning. With the standard, we should define perseverance, otherwise this idiom will be abused because of its vague meaning and useless in practice. It can be seen that every plan has corresponding perseverance. Different people and different goals mean different perseverance. The key is what kind of plan you have made for yourself in order to achieve your goal, and whether you have carried it out according to the plan afterwards.