“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
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“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?” ― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
“I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
We always want to copy end states, but we never want to copy the journeyYou can’t behave like Steve Jobs without having gone through his journey
Kunal Shah • Kunal Shah: Core Human Motivations [The Knowledge Project Ep. #141]
Of course, early success is fascinating because it’s unusual, but the most reliable way to be successful is to try, fail, learn, and try again. That’s why so many successful startups and scientific inventions are created by people in their forties and older: they’ve put in more reps—they went through more trials to learn from their mistakes.