Foreign Perspectives

Learning a new language and running a business might seem to be very different tasks but they have one thing in common: a need to be stubborn.

To learn a language you need to be stubborn enough to just keep going when you hit difficulties from time to time. In fact, often it seems to be the case that it isn’t so much an aptitude at languages that is required but rather an ability to be so stubborn that you’ll go on regardless of how bad you think you are at a given time.

It’s little different in most businesses of course. There are difficulties that arise from time to time and you need to develop that stubborness to just going because you know that you’ll be able to sort out whatever problems have arisen or are likely to arise in the future.