Sisu is not grit. Grit is goal-oriented; sisu is value-oriented and shows up unbidden when everything else has been spent.
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Sisu
Two hundred days of darkness a year. Forty below in winter. Russia next door. The Finns had to invent a word for the strength that shows up only when everything is gone, and they named it sisu. Sisu is not grit. Not resilience. Not courage. It is, specifically, the reserve you di…
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