Persistence
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Persistence
“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
The career history of Pret A Manger's CEO, Pano Christou.
Nice to see things like this.
All you have to do is make 100 videos and improve something every time
Lex Fridman • MrBeast: Future of YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram | Lex Fridman Podcast #351
incredible to see the growth curve of Acquired, one of the most popular podcasts. if it would've been a startup, it would've been shuttered after two years because of slow growth. good things take time.
Conversations with Bradley Cooper
youtube.comA great interview with Bradley Cooper. “It doesn’t work until it does”
Yes, the AI part of @tldraw is extremely cool, but so is the years of daily engineering @steveruizok put in behind it.
classic overnight success that was years in the making
The hardest thing to do is to create, and then keep creating. The people who make the greatest impact are the people who can keep creating, one thing after another, growing in impact each time. If you look at the world’s great makers - Elon Musk, Beyoncé, whoever you like - they don’t stand apart because of their raw talent. They stand apart... See more