Persistence Persistence is about how we commit to our self for doing specific activity routinely in order to reach something that we want, for example I want to have good IELTS scores so I commit to learning English hard and routinely. Sometimes, we feel so exciting to do it, but in other day we feel so lazy and want to give up, that's called motivation. Our motivation is up and down naturally. When, we have strong commitment and a bit ambitious, surely we can stand up again from the laziness and low motivation.