Mark Batterson: The Power of Persistence

We love stories that start with a breakthrough — the moment someone “finally makes it.” But most of the time, that moment isn’t magic at all. It’s math. A thousand tiny repetitions, choices and failures quietly compounding until one day, the work catches up with the dream.That’s the idea behind the concept “gradually then suddenly” — a phrase that sounds like poetry but feels more like physics. Change doesn’t rush. It builds. The people who seem to blow up overnight usually spent years working i