This meme is supposed to be motivational... it’s actually bullshit.

This meme is supposed to be motivational… it’s actually bullshit.

First of all it implies that 50% of people keep working at what they want to achieve.

1% is more like it.

The other problem is that bro on the bottom gives up right before he succeeds.

Thats optimistic too. Most people swing the axe one time and see it didn’t even break an inch off the wall and give up.

People just do not want to do the volume that’s needed to succeed at anything.

They think they want the result.

They think they are willing to do the work.

What they really want is the Instagram post.

They want to appear to succeed.

They want everything but doing what it takes.

The reason I’m thinking about this today is that I just went through 236 revisions for the script of 1 video on a YouTube channel that hasn’t even launched yet.

That’s after one channel took me 10 years to get to 100k subscribers.

And despite all that boring tedious work swapping a single word for another…

…I still don’t feel like it’s good enough and just had a thought on how I can make it better and am going to start over from zero.

Most people give up when their first 30 second reel doesn’t make them Mr. Beast.

Kobe Bryant used to take 800 to 1,000 made jumpshots a day in the offseason. Not taken. Made. He’d be in the gym at 4am doing the same boring movement thousands of times while the rest of the league slept. The 81 point games were built on ten thousand swings nobody saw.

Steve Jobs scrapped the entire design of the first Apple Store when it was nearly finished, months of work, because he decided it was organized around products instead of around what people wanted to do. He started over. The redo became the most profitable retail on earth per square foot.

Neither of them was a few inches from the diamonds getting lucky. They swung the axe an absurd number of times, hated a lot of the swings, and kept going anyway.

So if you actually want to succeed at something, get ready to be bored. For a long time. Doing the same unglamorous reps long after it stopped being exciting and long before it started paying.

Or, if you just want to look successful, take a photo of yourself, drop it into ChatGPT, and tell it to put you in front of a private jet. It’s gotten pretty good at that.

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