Ask HN: What is your best example of human persistence?
It can be a personal story or a famous story, one you've lived or one you've observed. IMHO scientific discoveries are examples of human persistence. Usually the media present these stories as these people are genius and some day they suddenly discovered new things. The reality is that it required enormous persistence for these discoveries, these scientists had to persistently worked for decades and more to make those groundbreking discoveries. This also applies to mathematics and engineering. Polynesian navigation and settlement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynesian_navigation