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the unsexy superpower that quietly eats talent for breakfast and never makes the highlight reel.
means steady, careful, persistent effort applied to a task or duty — the willingness to keep doing the work thoroughly and well.
from From Latin diligentia, 'carefulness, attentiveness,' which grew from diligere, 'to value highly, to choose, to love' (di- 'apart' + legere 'to pick, choose'). The deep idea is lovely: to be diligent is to attend to something because you've chosen it, given it your care. It traveled through Old French diligence into English, where for centuries it also named a fast public stagecoach — the 'diligence' — prized for getting you there reliably.
- latin root
- diligere means to love, esteem, choose carefully
- legal term
- due diligence saved buyers from countless ruinous deals
- old transport
- a diligence was once a public stagecoach
- compounding
- small daily effort beats rare heroic bursts
diligence in apollo 13 — nasa engineers' meticulous problem-solving brought the damaged spacecraft safely home in april 1970