The radical move here isn't accepting hardship—that's easy enough to romanticize. Krishna is describing something far stranger: the dissolution of preference itself, where your nervous system no longer registers victory and defeat as opposites. A devoted person doesn't grit through failure; they stop experiencing it as failure at all, because their identity has shifted from the one judging outcomes to the one witnessing them. Watch someone who's genuinely lost all attachment to results—a grandparent unconcerned with impressing anyone, a craftsman absorbed in work rather than recognition—and you notice they move with an eerie calm that has nothing to do with stoicism and everything to do with having stepped outside the scorekeeping game entirely.