Hi ,
You have seen the stories.
A musician posts one song online and wakes up to a record deal.
A startup founder launches a product and becomes a millionaire before the year ends.
An unknown writer hits “publish” and lands on the bestseller list.
It looks like magic.
It feels like it happened overnight.
But it didn’t.
In his book Good to Great, Jim Collins uses a simple metaphor to explain how success really works.
Picture an egg. Day after day, it sits there. No one pays attention to it. No one notices it. Certainly no one takes a picture of it or puts it on the cover of a celebrity-focused business magazine. Then one day, the shell cracks and out jumps a chicken.
All of a sudden, the major magazines and newspapers jump on the story: “Stunning Turnaround at Egg!” and “The Chick Who Led the Breakthrough at Egg!” From the outside, the story always reads like an overnight sensation, as if the egg had suddenly and radically altered itself into a chicken.
Now picture the egg from the chicken's point of view.
While the outside world was ignoring this seemingly dormant egg, the chicken within was evolving, growing, developing, changing.
From the chicken’s point of view, the moment of breakthrough, of cracking the egg, was simply one more step in a long chain of steps that had led to that moment.
Granted, it was a big step, but it was hardly the radical transformation that it looked like from the outside.
Overnight success is rarely about luck.
It is about persistence long enough for the world to finally notice.
The myth makes you believe you are behind.
That you should have “made it” by now.
That if it is taking too long, you are doing something wrong.
The truth is, the long road is the normal road.
The shortcuts you see in the media are just the highlights, not the whole story.
So if you are still grinding without the big break, keep going.
Your “overnight” moment may take years, but when it arrives, it will only look sudden to everyone else.
Relentlessly dedicated to your profitability,
Dr. Kayvon K
Simplifier & Profit Finder
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