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sustainable your ambition. There is no secret other than don’t give up,
keep plugging, and endure when you’ve got trouble or inconvenience. (For
a 12-round fight, professional boxers throw, on average, 140 punches.
Antionio Magarito threw a record 1,675 punches in one 12-round fight—
that’s try, try harder. Even more impressive is the man in his thirties who
is deaf, blind, mute, and quadriplegic yet has two children’s books pub-
lished, and his stage play is in rehearsal.)

Just don’t stop. Do it to the point of gagging.
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If someone closes a door, jump through a window.
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I’m tenacious. Anything relatively important in life requires nagging
yourself on. Now, my son, he’s willing to work just as hard—but not
during surfing season.

Experts say that 70 percent of energy comes from feeling “up,”
hopeful, positive, engaged, and focused. Rest, diet, exercise, and health
make up only 30 percent.
The people who don’t make it give up somewhere along the way. It
isn’t that they didn’t have what it takes. They and you have to hang tough
and not let complacency set it. For most people, work is hard enough
without pushing harder, so they don’t. If it all was totally easy, everyone
would do it. As the sign reads in Mac Cook’s construction office, “Many
people take aim, but few pull the trigger.”

They said “Give up,” that it couldn’t be done and that I’d regret it.
They were wrong.

Avoid Pessimistic People

You will hit inevitable bumps in the road without help from others. Other
people, the media, your personal life, and the world in general all can
bring you down if you let it.