Defining Perserverance
To put it simply, perseverance is never, never , never, never, never giving up pursuing your goal. We all have our favorite stories about people whose perseverance blazed the trail for success. One of my favorite is the story of the famous rapper now actor LL Cool J. When Todd (his real name) was about 15 years old, hip hop music was already in his system. He wrote more rhymes and music than he ever worked on his homework. By that time he went to every record stores and wrote down the labels of every rap record they had. He then sent out his demo tapes to each label- CBS, Sugar Hill, Island, Tommy Boy Electra, Profile, Enjoy etc. Two weeks later he received so many rejection letters from the record companies. He received enough letters to start a really good fire . He felt like crying but stifled his emotions. Something deep inside him, made him not give up and keep sending those tapes. He knew he was good so he persevered. One day, his mother bought him a 600 dollar drum machine to so