If you were driving from Birmingham to Atlanta or New Orleans and you ran into road construction, traffic jams, or stormy weather, chances are you wouldn’t just give up on making it to your destination. Yes, you’d be annoyed by the delays. Yes, you may face a detour or two and you may even pull off the highway and take a break at a rest stop if traffic was at a standstill for too long, but you wouldn’t give up.

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