{"id":4354,"date":"2024-12-14T04:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4354"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:55","slug":"tenacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=4354","title":{"rendered":"TENACITY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #111111\">I came across a deep thought from John Collison, Co-founder of Stripe:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren&#8217;t just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity <i>everything <\/i>requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum of passion projects.\u201d (Hat tip to Shane Parrish)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It reminded me of a curious truth I heard on a YouTube video that went something like this: Everything you see around you started in somebody&#8217;s imagination &#8211; some, like trees and mountains and oceans, began in God&#8217;s imagination while others, like movies and books and buildings, began in a human&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have some things in my imagination that I hope to get out before my life wraps up.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes I tell myself they are impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But other times I wonder if I just might be one of those people who manages to make real what&#8217;s currently only imaginary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think the Believer has more reason for greater hope than most when it comes to seeing dreams realized.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a deep thought from John Collison, Co-founder of Stripe: \u201cAs you become an adult, you realize that things around you weren&#8217;t just always there; people made them happen. But only recently have I started to internalize how much tenacity everything requires. That hotel, that park, that railway. The world is a museum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,72,71,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dreams","category-hopes","category-imagination","category-tenacity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4355,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4354\/revisions\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}