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Three Reasons Why Overnight Success Is Bullshit

Hi, everyone! I just wrote about how overnight success is bullshit. Here’s a quick list as to WHY:

1. There’s a lot we don’t see.

There’s the struggle, the years of messing up, the years sprinkled with ups and downs, highs and lows, credit card debt. There’s the sleeping on friend’s couches, or attics, (I’m like talking about my life story here in the last ten years or less). There are the breakups that keep you in bed for days. There are the friendships that don’t last that can really fuck up your mindset. There are collaborations with your friends that turn into business partners that can go really well or they can go to shit.

There’s not really a guidebook for any of this, so we have to figure out how to navigate these things on our own first. I mean there are a lot of helpful books out there, but at first, you don’t know about those books.

It can be really, really hard and painful to start a business or an organization at first without support, which was my experience.

There’s just so many years prior to what you see on Instagram or on someone’s website, and what you interpret as somebody else’s success. There’s probably years of struggle and mistakes that are happening…