12/6/2023 0 Comments Success iceberg christian![]() Winston Churchill, one of the 20th century’s greatest orators, practiced his speeches compulsively. The best people in any field are those who devote the most hours to their crafts. Greatness isn’t handed to anyone it requires an insane commitment to purpose. The most accomplished people needed timing, sacrifice, disappointments, and smart choices before becoming world-class. There’s no evidence of high-level performance without experience or practice. Years of trying, perseverance, commitment, and relentless practice will eventually make you look like an overnight success. What we do not see is what we might call the hidden logic of success.” What’s invisible to us - the submerged evidence, as it was - is the countless hours of practice that have gone into the making of the virtuoso performance: the relentless drills, the mastery of technique and form, the solitary concentration that have, literally, altered the anatomical and neurological structures of the master performer. In Mathew Syed’s book, Bounce, he beautifully sums it all up: “When we witness extraordinary feats …, we are witnessing the end product of a process measured in years. The results don’t surprise me - the long slow walk to success is real and practical. In follow-up studies of poets and painters, he found the same result. There were only 3 exceptions, (written in years 8 and 9). Her’s what he found: Every composition was written at least a decade after the musicians started to take their work seriously. His work was driven by a single question: “How long does it take to become a world-class musician?” John Hayes, a professor at Carnegie Mellon once studied thousands of musical pieces between 16. I love how David Perell, host of the North Star Podcast puts it, “We see trophies, not sweat. The unseen hours, necessary failures, setbacks, crises of confidence, the loneliness, the late nights and early mornings and, all the wobbling that comes before the walking - much less running, are what builds success. Just like an iceberg, success has a deep side we rarely see. Often in life and business, things are not what they seem - the messy middle is what really creates true success. James Clear, entrepreneur and author of Atomic Habits once wrote, “When your screen is filled examples of the strongest, richest, and smartest, it’s easy to overvalue the outcome and undervalue the process.” But time and time again, it’s been proven that persistence, dedication, commitment, sacrifice, failure, and disappointments are some of the real factors that contribute to the final win we see. People only see the end goal, the glory, the monumental win. Most people don’t count all the costs successful people have paid overtime (below the surface) to get to what they see (above the surface). Success is an iceberg - what people see is very different from reality.
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