How to understand persistence in Buddhism?

Persistence is an attitude towards life, which makes people more dependent on life or just selfish behavior, so that because they are too stubborn about their own thoughts and have more burdens and more direct pursuits for life, they will naturally disturb their hearts and immerse themselves in such activities, so that people's mentality and thoughts will become narrow or limited. In such a narrow environment, we can't tolerate others and society. So we closed our ideology, commonly known as persistence. Because of limitations, our psychology or thoughts are one-sided, which leads to more entanglements and makes our emotions, hearts and States more complicated, changeable and negative. And closed, self-control, and make this complex psychology more normal, popular, also lost the opportunity and ability to change, and with this relationship, also makes people's attitude, way of doing things, sometimes endanger the safety of people's activities, so it is unhealthy behavior, has not changed, there is no broad world, only oneself, that is persistence.