this insight from Visa:
when you have a game-changing insight you’ll often have to repeat it for 5-7 years before people start to really get it
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this insight from Visa: when you have a game-changing insight you’ll often have to repeat it for 5-7 years before people start to really get it
“Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.” This is borrowed from the wise and wonderful Debbie Millman, for it’s hard to better capture something so fundamental yet so impatiently overlooked in our culture of immediacy. The myth of the overnight success is just that — a myth — as well as a reminder that our present definition of success need... See more
Maria Popova • 13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings
If that's not bad enough, the second inconvenient truth is that even with the ideas that do prove to have potential, it typically takes several iterations to get the implementation of this idea to the point where it delivers the necessary business value. We call that time to money
Marty Cagan • Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love
I’m thinking about how many people were one or two iterations away from the right formula, but lacked the conviction to stay the course, the understanding that minor, subtle, successive changes can drastically influence outcome. I’m thinking about how self-doubt makes more people abandon a vision than competition or lack of funding ever will.