![]() ![]() ![]() Like latent muscle memory, the instinct to persevere lies deep within us, ready to be engaged whenever life gets difficult. From birth onward these repeated experiences of suffering and discovery rush at us incessantly, and, if we do not die, we subconsciously stumble upon a key to future survival: perseverance, a willful choice to keep trying until we get it right. Each successive moment after birth brings on new, stunning experiences: the pain of oxygen debt, shocking cold as liquid evaporates off skin that knows only warm immersion, our first pangs of hunger, enervating fatigue from flailing our limbs and finding our voice.īuilt into each new, distressing incident is both despair and the possibility of our deliverance from it, if only we can learn something new in mind, body, or both. ![]() At what point in this life do we first despair of finding relief from pain or struggle? It must surely happen well before we can remember, perhaps from the instant we are born. ![]()
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