While reading Hillbilly Elegy, there were three main ideas that stood out: persistence, resilience and grit. In my own words, I would describe persistence as not giving up in any situation. Resilience would be explained as dusting yourself off from a difficult situation that knocked you down in life. Grit would be explained as having courage to succeed in your main goal in a situation. I believe that, out of those three topics, resilience would be my strongest characteristic, while grit is a characteristic I would like to work on. To me, persistence and resilience go together hand in hand. You need a characteristic like persistence in order to never give up. Once you push through the initial not wanting to give up, you need resilience in order