Persistence and grit. The ability to return to something over and over again in order to complete a task. Design and art requires grit—that ability to fight through the temptation to abandon a project because of some perceived future where, upon completion, one has realized that time has been wasted. I’ll often have this feeling on projects. Sometimes it will come and go, other times it will persist throughout the entire process, from beginning to end. There is a feeling that creeps in—often ...