"Without effort, your talent is nothing more than your unmet potential. Without effort, your skill is nothing more than what you could have done but … - Angela Duckworth

"Stay positive," Cody said. "Go past those negative beliefs in what's possible and impossible and just give it a try."

I had this grit," Scott recalls. "I said, 'I'm going to do it. I don't care. I'm going to find a way to study what I want to study.

When you keep searching for ways to change your situation for the better, you stand a chance of finding them. When you stop searching, assuming they can't be found, you guarantee they won