Time is a Key Ingredient of Great Outcomes — Learn to Manage The Messy Middle
Time compounds — use it to accelerate your progress
All meaningful things take time — sometimes twice as long.
Many people aim to do all the right things at the right time and expect a good outcome in the shortest possible time. They underestimate the impact of time on the outcome.
Bill Gates was right, “most of us tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a year but underestimate what we can achieve in ten.”
Picasso took years of practice to master his art. Charles Darwin spent years exploring the natural world. Einstein spent a greater percentage of his youth learning how the universe works.
Everything great around you took years to refine. Skills take time to master. Ideas take massive investment of time to execute.
And even more investment of resources to get it from good to great. Every expert carries a story — an investment of significant time.
The power of compound time
“Good things take time, as they should. We shouldn’t expect good things to happen overnight. Actually, getting something too easily…
