Good point people are making that attitude is not the whole story. But it does seem that many are not aware that perseverance is such a large part of anything.

Good point people are making that attitude is not the whole story. But it does seem that many are not aware that perseverance is such a large part of anything. Before you get to perseverance even, there is the desire to try. A lot of projects are dismissed before they are even started as being too difficult or impractical. One tendency that I have, which I assume other people have also, is that in certain areas that I am invested in, I am happy to keep working on a project despite many small or large setbacks. I generally don't consider them to be a big deal. But other areas, such as cooking or promotion, I put a minimal amount of effort in and find it difficult to find motivation to continue when I have a setback or poor result. Part of it is my expectation for how hard things are. Some things that I am not particularly familiar with, I kind of expect to be fairly straightforward. But I am starting to think that almost every type of task is going to have setbacks and require perseverance to get good results. Which is good news, because it gives me hope that if I can be persistent when approaching those types of problems, I can be just as successful as I am with programming (when I don't give up).