Success doesn't happen overnight

I keep telling myself that.

AirBNB is a massive success, and it feels like they got there overnight. But according to CEO Brian Chesky, their "overnight" success took a little longer than that.

Gary Vaynerchuk talks about this all the time. The guy is absolutely everywhere today, but it has taken him over a decade and thousands of videos and articles to build his audience.

James Clear had a great tweetstorm about the amount of work that you need to, over a long time, to be successful.

There aren't any hacks or shortcuts to success.

I keep telling myself that.

Whenever something isn't going right with my startup or my day job, I keep telling myself to be patient.

Whenever I'm coding (I'm learning Python) and I can't figure something out, I keep telling myself that the solution will come with time (and a bunch of research on Stack Overflow).

When I go to the gym, I don't expect to lose my gut after one workout.

Things take time.

Of course, you always want to be able to learn faster and do more in a shorter period of time. Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't.

Sometimes you have magical epiphanies, other times you just have to grind away until you figure it out.

All of that takes time. It ain't gonna happen tomorrow.

I keep telling myself that.

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