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the body's quiet refusal to file the paperwork on quitting
means the ability to keep going through hardship, pain, or effort over a long stretch of time without giving up.
from From the Latin 'indurare,' to harden or make solid, built on 'durus,' meaning hard — the same stony root that gives us 'durable,' 'duration,' and the stubborn 'duress.' It reached English through Old French 'endurer,' so the word literally carries the idea of becoming hard enough to last. Fittingly, Shackleton's ship that survived being crushed and abandoning its crew on Antarctic ice was named Endurance, after the family motto: 'By endurance we conquer.'
- shackleton's ship
- Named Endurance, crushed by ice, crew all survived
- sled dogs
- Outrun marathoners over hundreds of miles, daily
- human cooling
- Sweating lets us outlast prey by overheating it
- second wind
- A real shift to fat-burning, not just willpower
- tardigrades
- Survive space, boiling, and decades without water
ironman world championship — 140.6-mile race in kona hawaii, founded 1978, thousands compete annually
tour de france — 2,200-mile cycling race over 21 days, first held 1903, most grueling stage race
badwater ultramarathon — 135-mile desert race from death valley to mount whitney in california heat