Why Unshakeable Belief Is the Truth Behind Overnight Success
A couple of weeks ago, people celebrated the 50th anniversary of the US moon landing.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, President Kennedy — these are the people who get the most attention. Not unlike many other yarns, we spin declaring the latest overnight success.
We oversimplify success and then wonder why we don’t achieve it.
Consider the moon landing again:
“Ten thousand problems had to be solved to get us to the moon. Every one of those challenges was tackled and mastered between May 1961 and July 1969. The astronauts, the nation, flew to the moon because hundreds of thousands of scientists, engineers, managers and factory workers unraveled a series of puzzles, often without knowing whether the puzzle had a good solution.”
- Charles Fishman, Smithsonian Magazine
I love this quote; not only because it acknowledges the people involved, but also because it talks about problems, puzzles, and solutions.
