Every day, I am thankful that I was blessed with uncommon stubbornness. I discount often how much less relentless others are in their approach to life and problems and can’t understand why they aren’t doing what I do just as a matter of course.

I take no credit for this; as far as I can tell, I was just born this way. And it caused me no end of problems when I was younger, but it’s made my life vastly easier as an adult.