Never Give Up

There are stories we hear about people becoming an

overnight success.
Of course, it often took them decades of anonymous hard
work to get there. Regardless, success never stops satisfying.
Far
success at a younger age.
high school students. He dabbled in writing himself. But he’d
never published anything.
Central to who he was as a person was his experience
growing
up within his family in his small Irish hometown. It was a life
of
great sadness, surrounded by poverty and alcoholism, but it
was
The result was a book that won millions of readers
and the Pulitzer Prize.
Frank leaped from total obscurity to international fame.
from losing its power, success late in life is every bit as
satisfying as
Frank McCourt taught writing and literature to New York City
not without its humor and absurdity. Retired from the
classroom,
Frank committed himself to putting that story on paper.
Angela’s Ashes,
don’t have time to get a bloated ego. God knows, I’ve taken
time
off, gone into a corner and said, ‘OK, ego: bloat!’ And it
won’t.”
was associated with a more optimistic outlook on life in
31 percent of people studied, and with greater life
satisfaction
in 42 percent of them.
“It’s all a big surprise to me, all a big adventure. And I don’t
know where I’m going. It’s a series of shocks,” he says.
“But it hasn’t changed me in any fundamental way,” he adds.
“I
The capacity to continue trying despite repeated setbacks.