Jon Leger just put up an article on his blog talking about how persistence is at least as big a part of success as talent. It’s called “What it takes to succeed in business.” Check it out.

I think another useful point to bring up is that you need to not just focus on one field in general (like internet business) jumping around from fad to fad and technique to technique, but settle on one specific thing and then work on that one thing until you get it.

P.T. Barnum wrote:

Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfully until you succeed, or until your experience shows that you should abandon it. A constant hammering on one nail will generally drive it home at last, so that it can be clinched. When a man’s undivided attention is centered on one object, his mind will constantly be suggesting improvements of value, which would escape him if his brain was occupied by a dozen different subjects at once. Many a fortune has slipped through a man’s fingers became he was engaged in too many occupations at a time. There is good sense in the old caution against having too many irons in the fire at once.