I stole this from an email...
...because it's excellent.
"But we've never heard of the millions of unsuccessful morons who persisted and maybe persist still, in spite of clear signs telling them to stop.
And that's why life is hard.
Except then I thought a bit more. I realized that you can make the odds better in your favor, and make life a little less hard.
It comes down to asking, does persistence here give me any meaningful accumulation?
There are fields where, if you continue to stick to it, your odds get no better, and maybe they even get worse.
Me winning the lottery is no more likely tomorrow even if play the lottery today.
And me becoming a professional tennis player... that's impossible today, and even with practice and dedication, it would only become more impossible tomorrow, as I get older, slower, and less likely to take even a point off a highly promising 14-year-old prospect.
But there are other areas where persistence does give you meaningful accumulation.
An email list is one. If you don't do much of anything but stick around and keep emailing, your list will grow, however slowly. Eventually, you'll cross some threshold where you have real influence.
Another area is money-making skill. You might have zero or negative money-making skills today. You might be an actual anti-talent. So was I, once upon a time.
But if you persist in learning and practicing a money-making skill, then the knowledge accumulates. Eventually, it crosses over a threshold where you have real skill at making money, first for others, then maybe even for yourself.
Life is hard if you don't choose wisely, and if you keep investing in things that cannot or will not give you a return.
But invest in things that are almost guaranteed to pay you back, and you can wind up with your own version of the Hero story. Maybe some smartass who knows you today will be telling the story tomorrow of how, unbelievable but true, you weren't always the huge success everybody now knows you as."
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Regards,
Brent.
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