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Do you give up when the going gets tough? Someone who gives up when things get hard or uncomfortable will never achieve anything truly great. Perseverance is required for greatness. Perseverance is going through those hard times without quitting.
Someone who exemplifies perseverance is Sid Meier. Sid Meier is the developer, the brains, the man behind the Civilization games, an extremely popular strategy game. According to Adam Sessler (2013), "Sid Meier inhabits a rarefied stratum of video game developers and is one of the greatest names in the medium." He also is the founder of Firaxis studios and holds a leading position in the company, the game development studio behind the Civilization games. Sid is my role model in the Game Development

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