Neither persistence nor curiosity alone acts strongly enough for sustained breakthroughs. Mix them together and try to absorb them everyday. The combination can be almost magical.
Learn to find ways and get help to begin to shed or work past the little and larger emotional things that weigh you down. A “lighter backpack” can allow for more nimble travel thru life
Listen. Unwillingness to hear out others can make us unpleasant, less able to think, and far less able to accept correction in the case we may be wrong.
The “power of the pause” can be mighty. Our tendency is to want to react. It rarely hurts to take a second and assess the landscape and our emotions before action.
Whatever we think of someone might indeed be true, and there also might be far more depth and complexity to that very same someone we know nothing about.