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 d…
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