#Creativity in the sciences is rarely revealed without a generous measure of persistence.   But do we properly encourage persistence?    Do we create the right conditions for it in our workplaces, lives, homes?   Do we model it in our own behaviours? 

This article by Leslie Wilson shows that it is our children that arguably have the most to gain -- or lose.

If we look back to the history of science:

"It looked absolutely impossible, but it so happens that if you go on hammering away at a problem, eventually it seems to get tired, lies down, and lets you catch it."    These are the words of William L. Bragg, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics at the age of 25 for his fundamental work on X-Ray Crystallography.  This work would enable the ground-breaking discovery of the structure of DNA by Watson & Crick.

Newton's introspection was along similar lines: 
"I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually by little and little into a full and clear light.” 

And Newton again:
“If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.”