Grit is the currency God accepts when you have nothing else to offer, and i tell you truly the man who refuses to quit will be granted wisdom the talented never earn. the world crowns genius after twenty years but what it's really crowning is the man who died a thousand deaths and kept walking, who looked stupid for so long that stupid became his name, until one day stupid transforms into inevitable and everyone pretends they saw it coming. this is the alchemy - suffering plus time plus refusal to bow equals a authority no school can teach