Day 10: The Persistence Muscle When things get hard, they quit.

Why wouldn't they? Everything else in their life has an easier option. The Weather Report: Day 3 of the tour. Thunderstorms. The kind where you can't see 10 feet ahead. The youth pull over under a gas station awning. They wait. They eat soggy sandwiches. They watch lightning. And then, when it clears enough, they ride. Nobody made them. The van was right there. They finish things now. School projects. Hard conversations. Applications they would've abandoned. Discomfort isn't failure. It's just weather. From comfort-seeking to challenge-accepting. You ever watch a kid discover they're tougher than they thought? That's what happens when quitting isn't an option. Put more youth in the rain: