Individual vision.  Individual accountability.  Absolute individual empowerment.  Self starting.  100% individual sacrifice.  100% risk.  No stories, excuses, misgivings, or rationalizations for failure.  These altogether define perseverance to the end...not the pedestrian perseverance that describes most of us others.  Just as his remarkable success is empowering, my highest regards go to the other 98% of his breed who end life without having attained their high lofts, because notwithstanding, they eventually became as successful and admirable as had Jesse.