“The process bears the fruit” — Sir James Dyson
Rupi Kaur published her poetry on Tumblr and eventually Instagram for two years before self-publishing Milk & Honey in 2014.
Beeple produced a picture every day for fourteen years before selling his “Everyday — The First 5000 Days” non-fungible token (NFT) for $69 million dollars.
Arnold Schwarzenegger consistently lifted weights for eight years before winning the coveted title of Mr. Olympia in 1970.
Success — in the many forms we tend to define it — is often tied to a moment in time. In reality, it’s often process and the kind of mindset required to keep oneself consistently committed to it that bears the fruit.
Commit to a process — a regular practice. Fall in love with it.
It’s a winning proposition that pays dividends daily as long as you’re committed to learning from it. And whatever additional “success” comes of it is just a bonus.
i feel like the regular people who adore such exemplars do themselves harm by pressuring themselves into thinking they need to fall in love with something and commit to some process without actually realizing/seeing what it is they love/seek/want.
it seems that too many people think they want to be:
entrepreneuers.
or designers
or programers
or writers
or artists
or atheletes
or etc etc etc.
what we truly want is deeper and less encapsulatable in such simple and shared terms. until we see that our commitments and "love" will be temporary.
Once one sees and accepts and then finally understand what they love, having to fall for something and having to commit won't be an issue.
There's a documentary snippet where some comedian asks
When i saw that long time ago this was confusing to me. Makes sense now.