We need not worry about physical strength in our comparison, but “stubbornness of purpose” can be applied to Trump and to only a few others in U.S. history, including George Washington during ...

Maybe we don’t notice this kind of self-sabotaging stubbornness in younger people because we are less involved with the consequences of it. But my experience is that it is a hallmark of the elderly.

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A recent study has found that stubbornness and the tendency to refuse to accept to defeat may be due to a mutation in a gene. It seems that bull-headedness is attributed to genes. A recent study ...

What do I mean by stubbornness? Think about a time when you were told no, denied your vision of a better life. What did you do? Did you accept that limitation? Or did you defy the odds and work ...