Talk:Eight Humans/@comment-27170700-20151207092555/@comment-27397239-20151214075249

Well, not wanting to get all philosophical or deep, I'd say that the difference is in the end goal, or in this case whether or not you Even have a goal. If we use the example of a school test and apply both determination and perseverance we get two situations.

With perseverance the test is simply finished. You don't care what your results are or even what the questions are just that it's done. You don't know or care why you did it and you're not going to question it now. If someone asks why you did it in the first place and didn't quit you'd shrug and state that you don't know, and at best you'd tell them that you had nothing better to do.

With Determination the test is completed You care about the results and answering the questions to the best of your abilities. You do it because you care about it and you'll question if you made the right decision. If someone asks why you did it in the first place and didn't quit you'd grab them by the shoulders and tell them it's because you can, and because you can you have to.

In summary perseverance is seeing something through to it's conclusion even if you don't care about the end results if you fail you fail you where only doing it because you had nothing else to do. Determination on the other hand, is having the desire and will to see something through to the end and give it your all along the way.