Persistence is admired.
Stubbornness is frowned upon.
There is a fine line that separates them, and sometimes it’s hard to know which side of the line we’re on.
Outsiders looking in will say the cause of our success was persistence, but they’ll also be willing to call our failures a consequence of our stubbornness.
My take is that if you’re going to dance with persistence, someone is inevitably going to call you a stubborn fool. And the strength of our convictions, despite the criticism, is determines how long we’ll keep going.