Persistence is when you realize that Ganondorf has been the final boss of 10 Zelda games and has beaten 1/3rd of a single fight. He canonically wins 1/3rd of the boss fights in Ocarina of Time. Meaning he has a loss record of 97% despite being literally 3 times the size of Link and Link’s main weapon being a weapon that possesses the incredible ability that it can potentially injure Ganondorf. Meaning Link’s ace in the hole is a sword that works like every other sword, while Ganondorf can time travel, create illusions, shoot sith lightning and fucking fly and he loses to teenage elf boy 97% of the time just for the possibility of that 3% chance happening again.