Couldn't agree more. You might be highly intelligent and/or creative, and those things should help for sure, but if you don't have grit, nearly a masochistic a

Couldn't agree more. You might be highly intelligent and/or creative, and those things should help for sure, but if you don't have grit, nearly a masochistic attitude to keep striving when you're flat on the ground or when you're at a dead-end, you won't make it. To me, writing solid code is like combat.