Intellectual
perseverance is the drive within an individual and/or group to overcome
difficult questions, situations, and/or problems. The right answers come from extensive investigation, pondering, and usually
multiple failures. For one to
intellectually persevere in a scenario like this, they would need to possess
additional attributes such as patience, humility, and courage in order to
arrive at a definitive long term solution that feels right.
When I am tasked at
work and I can tell that the right solution
to an issue could take weeks or months to resolve I attempt to find a solution
that would bridge across the immediate future as to not have to deal with the
real underlying problem. I find quick
answers to the issue within my available resources: people’s knowledge/insight
and/or data mining. Valuable information comes from this, but a lot of the time
I gain an understanding that the given information is not going to be the fix
that mitigates future occurrences by the simple fact that the information given
doesn’t encompasses the full scope of my issue. I sell the fix to the appropriate people to
get the aircraft flying again (NOT SAFETY ISSUES, reliability issues) but I keep it
on my to-dos and revisit it at my convenience.
This works for what I am doing, but one thing I have noticed
is that if you don’t get to the root, the issue will be overgrown by the time
you get back around to it and an additional level of perseverance will be
needed to overcome. This is the real test of will; if you have the ability to gather information, analyze said information, break it down into understandable arguments for each decision, and then MAKE THE DECISION based upon your bias of right and wrong, you exhibit a great level of intellectual perseverance
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