When the Going Gets Tough, The Tough Keep Standing.
Gert Boyle, the founder of Columbia once said, “We don’t make humans. But we do make them tougher.” There are several ways to define "toughness". Some hold it by the standard of physical strength. Others equate it to the measure of time you can endure extreme conditions. Others even define it as the amount of pressure a person or object can handle before finally giving out. But having experienced one of the hardest times that the world has gone through in recent history, a global pandemic puts “toughness” into a different perspective. With businesses, jobs, and lives being threatened by COVID, the odds were truly stacked against all of us. But in the midst of trying times, the difficulties of an unforeseen crisis brought out a different kind of toughness in many of us. This toughness is called “grit”. It goes beyond brute strength or the sheer desire to survive. It is the resolve to defy logic, to push one’s limits, and withstand whatever obstacle life may bring to be able
