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>It takes an incredible amount of will and perseverance to continue it.
THAT
is what it's all about.
Conquering the emotional need to be part of (controlled by) the community around you, family, colleagues, customers, suppliers of whatever (groceries if you will), all of that. It's stepping out into an unknown which frighten the habitual programming in the brain.
Those with the will, perseverance, self-determination and fortitude will be the one's sticking around, as it is those who do the actual work anyway.