It Takes Years To Be An Over Night Success
I' m convinced that there is no such thing as over night success. I believed it's a fallacy , a myth to believe that overnight, in 24 hours that someone can turn into a world wide phenomenon.
Picasso was once approached by a woman and the woman asked if she could have a portrait of herself. Picasso gladly said yes. He then reached a paper and a pen and within 30 seconds he sketched an identical portrait of the lady. He then told the lady that the portrait was valued around 30 thousand dollars. The lady was shocked and she immediately asked Picasso how can he charged the lady for that amount considering he just did it for 30 seconds. Picasso replied,
"It took me 30 years to be able to do that in 30 seconds."
It's amazing how that time, an unforgotten, that invisible world beyond the bottom of the iceberg, underneath the water, the part you don't see, is actually what made, what you see today possible.
When you look at the definition of the word failure in the dictionary, it is defined by only three words, lack of success. It means that we don't value learning, it means we don't value growth, it means we don't value experience and struggle and our obsession with winning means that we're actually letting go of all of that which we could be learning every single point.
Since I was a young boy, I've been enamored with stories of failures, autobiographies and biographies and books about people who changed the world, people who changed other people's world.
I actually believed that failure has the ability to lure success.
Countless failures are almost doorkeepers to success and every time you walk through one door, the gate gets bigger and the locks gets tighter, and it gets much more difficult because we're being tested for our genuineness and authenticity and our real desire to chase that goal, a real desire to actually embody the values that are needed to take responsibility for that success, to take responsibility for that position and the influence it brings with it. And therefore if you've never failed, you've never actually tried anything new.
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