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THEHUMAN DIARYThere is a word for what you felt.
Growth

Sisu

SEE-soo

n.Grim, unreasonable persistence past the point where hope is rational.

FinnishEstablished linguistic term

The Last Forty Metres

Her grandmother's word for it is not a compliment, which is the first thing the physiotherapist got wrong.

"You've got such a great attitude," said Jonna, in week three, brightly.

Aino, who was forty-six and had been told in January that she would probably not walk unaided again, said nothing, because the correct response would have taken twenty minutes and she was busy trying to move a toe.

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Attitude is a feeling. Attitude is optimistic or it is not.

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