Perseverance

This week was a great reminder that it is not how good you are in school or how much you know, but how you use that knowledge and your perseverance. Those who succeed are those who don’t give up and are willing to face challenges.

There is a great talk given by Elder Faust in which he tells us how he knew kids in High School who were very smart and talented but who failed to persevere or to put forth the extra effort and thus failed to accomplish their full potential while others that at first were not as talented where able to accomplish great things by not giving up.

Yesterday I watched the movie ‘’Revenge of the Electric Car’’. It is a documentary about this new trend in the automotive industry. In it, Tesla Motors was struggling to launch its first cars. They ran out of money and almost had to close, but the founder Elon Musk kept giving of his own money for the business and taking risks in order to keep it alive. I honestly started wondering if entrepreneurship is really for me.

Being an entrepreneur is not having a lot of money and enjoying a life of pleasure; it is rather a constant fight and struggle to keep the company going. I truly wonder if I will be ever able to do something like that. I know I can if I really try and don’t give up.

Perseverance talk: https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2005/04/perseverance?lang=eng

Revenge of the Electric Car: http://www.revengeoftheelectriccar.com/