'What happens as a rule is if I go on long enough I break through,' said writer Katherine Mansfield about overcoming obstacles
The lives of figures like Harriet Beecher Stowe and Helen Frankenthaler hold lessons for everyone about focus and perseveranceIn December 1850, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote to her sister-in-law with a complaint that will sound familiar to anyone who has struggled to carve out time for a creative project.
“Since I began this note,” Stowe wrote, “I have been called off at least a dozen times—once for the fish-man, to buy a codfish—once to see a man who had brought me some baskets of apples—once to see a book man…then to nurse the baby—then into the kitchen to make a chowder for dinner and now I am at it again, for nothing but deadly determination enables me to ever write—it is rowing against wind and tide.
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