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The course from here to there!


It is impossible to not think about how to bridge the gap between where you are and where you would like to be. The gap often appears enormous. Unsurprisingly, you get attracted to tricks and treats to get you past it.

However, shortcuts that should have helped don't work, leaving you stumped and with a much wider gap.

The main issue is focusing on the result without control over it. While expecting results is a dreamy desire, it depends on the route we take to get results. The course involves a lot of background work with little recognition and reward. It consists of working in quiet, dark, dusty corners that get our hands in the mud. Some days feel like endless early mornings and late nights, all starting and ending with a streak of mistakes and false hopes that ensue.

Learning by doing is a great way to provide real hope. The route appears marred with costly affairs. Learning is time-consuming, costs money, and failures are totally humbling. And yet, following a long-term path builds confidence by tackling the fear of inaction driven by shortcuts that raise our expectation of automatic success.

The careful, self-made, experiment-laden route is how we improve and get better. The course is dusty and lonely. It looks slow and tedious and goes against the accepted norm.

And yet, before you know it, build your own future one brick at a time. Soon, each brick acts as a peer that has experience of how it came about to be rooted where it is.

Self-made experiments allow you to build the process that works for you. Each one can be small and hence manageable. But it gets you focused on how to improve the reality of yesterday.
And when you make tiny progress with steps daily, you understand your results will blow your mind.


The difference is you cannot expect results. You land them because of the course you take!

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