What are the most underrated things in life?
Power of consistent hard work and efforts
“I start early and I stay late, day after day, year after year, it took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.”
Lionel Messi
Our minds are hardwired to improve and learn slowly. You crawl, then walk and later run.The 1,000-hour rule. Multiple studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of regular and consistent practice.
You want to get better in cricket. Go and start playing 10 hours per day for next 3 years. Find yourself 24 seven in thoughts of cricket news, ideas and techniques. Become an absolute cricket buzz. You will reach at top eventually.
We don’t love enough what we want to be or do in real life. We are often attracted by the glamour and NOT real passion of anything.
You can write 10 hours per day or do dramatics 10 hours per day or play 10 hours per day ONLY if you really love your passion and NOT because you want to become a star or celebrity.
Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there are benefits to being wealthy. I'm just happy with a ball at my feet. My motivation comes from playing the game I love. If I wasn't paid to be a professional footballer I would willingly play for nothing.
Lionel Messi
It takes a lot of hard work to reach at top. You will get demotivated, you will get disheartened, you may not get desired quick results, but ultimately you will reach there, only if you are willing to go on working hard and continuously improving, with out measuring up the results or efforts.
This only one fact is so difficult to gauge and accept that you improve unprecedentedly over time.
There will be people more gifted than you in your domain and they will learn and grow faster. Remember if they don’t have real passion, they can never reach at top.
Your growth might be slow but realize that knowledge is a cumulative and compounding skill. Learning curve is ever exponential and never linear. You will however have to reach a minimum threshold to get that exponential growth. No one ever knows when that threshold shall come. Go on focusing on your prime job and working hard, eventually you will reach there.
When ever people say ‘you’ can’t do it, usually means ‘they’ can’t do it.
Some people shall be luckier than you to be at right place at right time. Some people might have struck with golden idea at right moment. I n any case, in long run, hard work (sincere and consistent) will beat everything.
Final notes
Choose a domain which you ‘really’ love and enjoy. Don’t chose life goals based on glamour or money or because ‘someone’ did it.
Go on working hard, focusing only on your core job and improving yourself continuously. Leave results to god.
Starting is often the most difficult step of any goal.
Focus on what logic people offer to oppose your ideas. Neglect their opinion and biases not backed by reason.
Mind learns in non linear way. Sometime no progression in months and at other times jumping heaps unseen in days.
You can never time your success. No one knows when that jump curve will start.
"There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen"
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.