People always apply brakes to their vehicles when they should not. Sounds quite strange, isn't it. But it is the most common universal truth which becomes the separating factor of the great and the ordinary.
The great Thomas Alva Edison, the guy who defied all limits of endurance, stands testimony to the persevering factor. This man will engross himself into experiments so much that he used to quit only when he got an amicable solution to the problem When he invented the electric bulb, he said that I have found 10000 ways that won't work. The mere number of the experiments done by him for something, which was quite unknown at that time, was in itself a marvel, to ponder upon.
Not to forget, his other famous quotation, which read "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration". It truly captures the essence of what we should do when things are down---that is to forget Giving Up.
Read these lines, which had always inspired me:
"When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two and I know it was not that blow that did it - but all that had gone before"
So, let us push our limits and let limits know how much they can and are allowed to go, by pushing themselves.
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