Ford captures something often missed about collaboration: that merely assembling people creates nothing of value—progress demands *persistent* presence, which is far harder than the initial enthusiasm of gathering. The real intelligence here lies in distinguishing between the passive endurance of "staying together" and the active commitment of "working together," suggesting that mere loyalty without purpose becomes hollow. Consider a marriage or friendship that drifts into comfortable coexistence without shared effort; it survives, but it doesn't flourish. Ford insists success belongs only to those willing to keep showing up *and* directing that presence toward something specific.