Glossary · Term

Stubbornness

It means insisting on something more than seven times. Sometimes, when we're stubborn, we get what we want, not what we need. Stubbornness leads us to face more difficult learning situations.

In the Foundation's Topics

However, in many cases what we have is not perseverance, but stubbornness in the face of certain circumstances in which the Law of Warning is telling us “no.”
From the topic The Laws of the Universe and of Life
Its intensity is proportional to stubbornness, rebelliousness, or disobedience toward the Laws of Life.
From the topic Accepting in Order to Live Without Suffering
As for the king of fear of dying, it often connects with disgust, because the person assumes that some things are dangerous for their physical integrity; and also with attachments, hysteria, greed, rebelliousness, stinginess, stubbornness, or distrust.
From the topic Learning to Transcend Fears